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title: To his great surprise he found it represented an extremely handsome… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To his great surprise he found it represented an extremely handsome young man, who was so like himself that it might have been his own portrait! Who acts: sight, surprise, handsome young man. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 46

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To his great surprise he found it represented an extremely handsome young man, who was so like himself that it might have been his own portrait!

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**Who acts:** sight, surprise, handsome young man · **What happens:** find, represent, be, surprise · **To what, where:** handsome young man, own portrait · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, surprise, handsome young man), 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:pg503:23:46
# text = To his great surprise he found it represented an extremely handsome young man, who was so like himself that it might have been his own portrait!
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | sight |  |  |  |  | to sight's great surprise | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | past | surprise | a handsome young man |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a handsome young man |  |  |  |  | like sight | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | might · perfect | surprise | sight's own portrait |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **surprise** |  | sight |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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