--- title: Labakan was greatly surprised and interested by this story, but afte… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Labakan was greatly surprised and interested by this story, but after hearing it he could not help looking on Prince Omar with envious eyes, angry that his friend should have the position he himself longed so much for. Who acts: Labakan, friend. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/) / 54 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 54 Labakan was greatly surprised and interested by this story, but after hearing it he could not help looking on Prince Omar with envious eyes, angry that his friend should have the position he himself longed so much for. **Who acts:** Labakan, friend · **What happens:** be, hear, not help, look, have, long · **To what, where:** Story, position This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Labakan, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:34:54 # text = Labakan was greatly surprised and interested by this story, but after hearing it he could not help looking on Prince Omar with envious eyes, angry that his friend should have the position he himself longed so much for. 1 Labakan Labakan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 after after SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 19 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:desc _ _ 22 Omar Omar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 envious envious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 ccomp _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 position position NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 35 nmod:unmarked _ _ 37 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 much much ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Labakan | | | | | greatly, surprised *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Labakan *not said here* | | | | | by this story | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | gerund | Labakan *not said here* | Story | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **not** **help** | could | Labakan | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **look** *not said to happen* | gerund | Labakan *not said here* | | | | | with envious eyes; on Omar Prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on omar=Theme | | 6 | **have** | should | Labakan's friend | the position | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Patient | | 7 | **long** | past | friend | the position *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/55/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/)