--- title: However, he had it placed in as favourable a light as possible, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, he had it placed in as favourable a light as possible, and sent for the Princess, but the moment she caught sight of it she looked the other way and began to cry. Who acts: prince, portrait, Princess, moment. 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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 (prince, portrait, Princess, moment), 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:pg540:34:24 # text = However, he had it placed in as favourable a light as possible, and sent for the Princess, but the moment she caught sight of it she looked the other way and began to cry. 1 However however ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 favourable favourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | prince | portrait | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **place** | participle | portrait *not said here* | | | a favourable light | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in light=Destination | | 3 | **send** | participle | prince *not said here* | | | | | for the Princess | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **catch** | past | Princess | sight of portrait | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 5 | **look** | past | the moment | the other way | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **begin** | past | the moment *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the moment *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sight** | | | portrait | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/25/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)