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title: When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it and go off into a dead faint, and for her sake he will encounter many dangers; you must guard him from this.” Who acts: picture, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 8

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When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it and go off into a dead faint, and for her sake he will encounter many dangers; you must guard him from this.”

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**Who acts:** picture, you · **What happens:** behold, fall, go off, encounter, guard · **To what, where:** picture, love, dead faint, many dangers

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picture, you), 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:pg503:41:8
# text = When he beholds that picture he will fall violently in love with it and go off into a dead faint, and for her sake he will encounter many dangers; you must guard him from this.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beholds	behold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	faint	faint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	encounter	encounter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | present | picture | that picture |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | future | picture |  |  | love with love |  | violently *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 3 | **go off** | infinitive | picture *not said here* |  |  | a dead faint |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **encounter** | future | picture | many dangers |  |  |  | for Princess's sake | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus |
| 5 | **guard** | must | you |  | picture |  |  | from this | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from this=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 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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