--- title: Here the genius who had carried off Iliane was wandering about, tryi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Here the genius who had carried off Iliane was wandering about, trying to discover how to capture them, all the while believing that Iliane was safe in the palace where he had left her. Who acts: Iliane, while, genius. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/29/) [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 Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/) / 29 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 29 Here the genius who had carried off Iliane was wandering about, trying to discover how to capture them, all the while believing that Iliane was safe in the palace where he had left her. **Who acts:** Iliane, while, genius · **What happens:** carry off, wonder, try, discover, capture, believe · **To what, where:** genius, skins, palace, Iliane · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (Iliane, while, genius), 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:pg641:40:29 # text = Here the genius who had carried off Iliane was wandering about, trying to discover how to capture them, all the while believing that Iliane was safe in the palace where he had left her. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 Iliane Iliane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 wandering wonder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 capture capture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 24 believing believe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 Iliane Iliane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry off** | past · perfect · passive | | the genius | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past · progressive | Iliane | | | | | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **try** | gerund | Iliane *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **discover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Iliane *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **capture** | to-infinitive | Iliane *not said here* | skins *= skin* | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **believe** | gerund | all while *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** | past | Iliane | | | the palace | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **leave** | past · perfect | genius | Iliane | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/30/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/40/)