--- title: “Bellissima was sitting in the wood when you passed, and saw you wit… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Bellissima was sitting in the wood when you passed, and saw you with the Fairy of the Desert, who was so cleverly disguised that the Princess took her to be prettier than herself; you may imagine her despair, for she thought that you had fallen in love with her.” Who acts: Bellissima, you, Desert, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/) / 43 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 43 “Bellissima was sitting in the wood when you passed, and saw you with the Fairy of the Desert, who was so cleverly disguised that the Princess took her to be prettier than herself; you may imagine her despair, for she thought that you had fallen in love with her.” **Who acts:** Bellissima, you, Desert, Princess, Mermaid · **What happens:** sit, pass, see, be, take, imagine · **To what, where:** wood, you, Mermaid, despair, love · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima, you, Desert, Princess), 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:pg503:7:43 # text = “Bellissima was sitting in the wood when you passed, and saw you with the Fairy of the Desert, who was so cleverly disguised that the Princess took her to be prettier than herself; you may imagine her despair, for she thought that you had fallen in love with her.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Bellissima Bellissima PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 cleverly cleverly ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 disguised disguise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 prettier pretty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 for for SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 47 that that SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 49 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 46 ccomp _ _ 51 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 53 with with ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ” " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Bellissima | | | the wood | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location | | 2 | **pass** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | you *not said here* | you | | | | with the Fairy of the Desert | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the Desert | | | | | cleverly, disguise *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | past | the Princess | | Mermaid | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | than Mermaid; pretty *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **imagine** *in a quote* | may | you | Mermaid's despair | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot despair=Theme | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | Mermaid | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 9 | **fall** *in a quote* | past · perfect | you | | | love | | with Mermaid | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 10 | **despair** *in a quote* | | Mermaid | | | | | | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/44/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/)