--- title: He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness o… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats, and the pretty papered walls, which in warm weather always slid back, so that the smell of the trees and flowers might come in. Who acts: middle, whiteness, papered walls, trees. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle, whiteness, papered walls, trees), 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:pg2435:38:103 # text = He was very proud of it, and never tired of admiring the whiteness of his straw mats, and the pretty papered walls, which in warm weather always slid back, so that the smell of the trees and flowers might come in. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 very very ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 11 of of SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 admiring admire VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 whiteness whiteness NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 straw straw NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 18 mats mat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 papered paper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 walls wall NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 30 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 31 advmod _ _ 31 slid slide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ _ 32 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 44 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 43 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 45 in in ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | middle | | | | | of house; proud *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **admire** | gerund | middle *not said here* | the whiteness | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whiteness=Stimulus | | 3 | **mat** | present | the whiteness *not said here* | | | | | of middle's straw | tree rules | | 4 | **paper** | participle | | | | | | pretty *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **slide back** | past | | | | warm weather | | always *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in weather=Trajectory | | 6 | **come in** | might | the papered walls | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **smell** | | the trees and flowers | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/102/) - next →: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/104/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/)