--- title: From the moment that I first saw her, sitting in the forest surround… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: From the moment that I first saw her, sitting in the forest surrounded by flowers, I have never ceased to think of her night and day, and, although I love her, I am quite convinced that she will never care for me. Who acts: I, love. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/75/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/) / 75 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 75 From the moment that I first saw her, sitting in the forest surrounded by flowers, I have never ceased to think of her night and day, and, although I love her, I am quite convinced that she will never care for me. **Who acts:** I, love · **What happens:** see, sit, surround, not cease, think, love · **To what, where:** moment, forest, love This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (I, love), 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:pg640:16:75 # text = From the moment that I first saw her, sitting in the forest surrounded by flowers, I have never ceased to think of her night and day, and, although I love her, I am quite convinced that she will never care for me. 1 From from ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 obj _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 15 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 although although SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 quite quite ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 convinced convinced ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ _ 46 for for ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | I | the moment | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | the forest | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | | 3 | **surround** | participle | | the forest *not said here* | | | | by flowers | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **cease** | present · perfect | I | | | | moment | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | night | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **love** | present | I | love | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | present | I | | | | | convinced *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **care** | future | love | | | | | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/76/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/)