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title: But just now his first care was for Celia, and rising into the air h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But just now his first care was for Celia, and rising into the air he flew round and round the house, until he saw an open window; but he searched through every room in vain. Who acts: first care, prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree an
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 146

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But just now his first care was for Celia, and rising into the air he flew round and round the house, until he saw an open window; but he searched through every room in vain.

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**Who acts:** first care, prince · **What happens:** be, rise, fly, round, see, search · **To what, where:** air, Celia, house, open window, room

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first care, prince), 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:pg503:39:146
# text = But just now his first care was for Celia, and rising into the air he flew round and round the house, until he saw an open window; but he searched through every room in vain.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Celia	Celia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	round	round	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | prince's first care |  |  |  | now | for Celia | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | prince *not said here* |  |  | the air |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **fly** | past | prince | Celia *not said here* |  |  |  | round *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location celia=Theme |
| 4 | **round** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | the house |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | past | prince | a open window |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer window=Stimulus |
| 6 | **search** | past | prince | Celia *not said here* |  | every room |  | in vain | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent celia=Location |
| 7 | **care** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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