--- title: He was puzzled, not knowing what to do next, until it occurred to hi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was puzzled, not knowing what to do next, until it occurred to him to see if the windows would help him, and, looking at the nearest, he saw a picture of himself lifting the picture from the wall. Who acts: key, windows, prince. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/64/) [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/) / 64 # The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 64 He was puzzled, not knowing what to do next, until it occurred to him to see if the windows would help him, and, looking at the nearest, he saw a picture of himself lifting the picture from the wall. **Who acts:** key, windows, prince · **What happens:** puzzle, not know, do, occur, see, help · **To what, where:** prince, picture, wall 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 (key, windows, prince), 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:pg540:34:64 # text = He was puzzled, not knowing what to do next, until it occurred to him to see if the windows would help him, and, looking at the nearest, he saw a picture of himself lifting the picture from the wall. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 puzzled puzzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 next next ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 occurred occur VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 windows window NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 39 nsubj _ _ 39 lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 acl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **puzzle** | past · passive | | prince | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | | | | | | next *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 4 | **occur** | past | key | | prince | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | key *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | the windows | | prince | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | | 7 | **look** | gerund | prince *not said here* | | | | | at the nearest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at near=Theme | | 8 | **see** | past | prince | a picture | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus | | 9 | **lift** | gerund | prince | the picture | | the wall | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme from wall=Destination | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/65/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Branch, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/34/)