--- title: The helmet was pushed on one side, and as the youth stood watching f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The helmet was pushed on one side, and as the youth stood watching from behind a tree he had a glimpse of the girl’s great beauty; and he determined that no one else should be his wife. Who acts: youth, one. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/30/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/) / 30 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 30 The helmet was pushed on one side, and as the youth stood watching from behind a tree he had a glimpse of the girl’s great beauty; and he determined that no one else should be his wife. **Who acts:** youth, one · **What happens:** push, stand, watch, have, determine, be · **To what, where:** helmet, one side, tree, glimpse, wife, great beauty This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, one), 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:pg641:31:30 # text = The helmet was pushed on one side, and as the youth stood watching from behind a tree he had a glimpse of the girl’s great beauty; and he determined that no one else should be his wife. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 helmet helmet NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 pushed push VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 xcomp _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 behind behind ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 glimpse glimpse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 else else ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past · passive | | the helmet | | one side | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on side=Trajectory | | 2 | **stand** | past | the youth | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **watch** | gerund | the youth *not said here* | | | a tree | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | past | youth | a glimpse of the girl's great beauty | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Patient | | 5 | **determine** | past | youth | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | should | no one | youth's wife | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **glimpse** | | | the girl's great beauty | | | | | nom glimpse «act 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/31/) - ↑ back to [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/)