--- title: “After watching you narrowly,” said he, “I no longer feel any desire… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “After watching you narrowly,” said he, “I no longer feel any desire to play cards with you”; and with these words he struck them dead and threw them out into the water. Who acts: friend, desire. 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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 (friend, desire), 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:pg503:13:100 # text = “After watching you narrowly,” said he, “I no longer feel any desire to play cards with you”; and with these words he struck them dead and threw them out into the water. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 After after SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 3 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 ccomp _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 narrowly narrowly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 no no ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 15 advmod _ _ 15 feel feel VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 16 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 17 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 20 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | gerund | | you | | | | narrowly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | friend | any desire | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | any desire *not said here* | cards | | | | with you | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent card=Theme with you=Co-Agent | | 5 | **strike** | past | friend | cards *= card* | | | | with this words; dead *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with word=Instrument | | 6 | **throw out** | past | friend *not said here* | cards *= card* | | | | into the water *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/101/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)