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title: Then he began to perceive that something was amiss, and, throwing of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he began to perceive that something was amiss, and, throwing off the mortal form that encumbered him, he flew out of the palace, and soared high into the air, and saw the fugitive princess in the far distance just as the swift horse carried her across the boundary of his dominions. Who acts: he
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 57

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Then he began to perceive that something was amiss, and, throwing off the mortal form that encumbered him, he flew out of the palace, and soared high into the air, and saw the fugitive princess in the far distance just as the swift horse carried her across the boundary of his dominions.

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**Who acts:** head, something, mortal form, swift horse · **What happens:** begin, perceive, be, throw off, encumber, fly out · **To what, where:** mortal form, head, palace, air, fugitive princess, princess

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, something, mortal form, swift horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:32:57
# text = Then he began to perceive that something was amiss, and, throwing off the mortal form that encumbered him, he flew out of the palace, and soared high into the air, and saw the fugitive princess in the far distance just as the swift horse carried her across the boundary of his dominions.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	amiss	amiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	encumbered	encumber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	across	across	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	boundary	boundary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | head |  |  |  | then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **perceive** | to-infinitive | head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | something |  |  |  |  | amiss *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **throw off** | gerund | head *not said here* | the mortal form |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 5 | **encumber** | past | the mortal form |  | head |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme he=Recipient |
| 6 | **fly out** | past | head | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme |
| 7 | **soar** | past | head *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory |
| 8 | **see** | past | head *not said here* | the fugitive princess |  |  |  | in the far distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 9 | **carry** | past | the swift horse | princess |  | the boundary of head's dominions |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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