--- title: He found that the pictures seemed to be scenes from the life of a ma… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He found that the pictures seemed to be scenes from the life of a man who appeared in every window, and the Prince, fancying that he saw in this man some resemblance to himself, began to be deeply interested. Who acts: prince, pictures, man. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Gol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/33/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/) / 33 # The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 33 He found that the pictures seemed to be scenes from the life of a man who appeared in every window, and the Prince, fancying that he saw in this man some resemblance to himself, began to be deeply interested. **Who acts:** prince, pictures, man · **What happens:** find, seem, be, appear, fancy, see · **To what, where:** scenes, life, window · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (prince, pictures, man), 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:pg540:34:33 # text = He found that the pictures seemed to be scenes from the life of a man who appeared in every window, and the Prince, fancying that he saw in this man some resemblance to himself, began to be deeply interested. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 scenes scene NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 20 det _ _ 20 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 fancying fancy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 34 det _ _ 34 resemblance resemblance NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 41 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 interested interested ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | prince | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | past | the pictures | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | scenes | | the life of a man | | | tree rules | | 4 | **appear** | past | a man | | | every window | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Location | | 5 | **fancy** | gerund | the Prince | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **see** | past | prince | | | | | in this man some resemblance to prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **begin** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | | | deeply, interested *property* | tree rules | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/34/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)