--- title: Of course, at the very mention of the Enchanter as a rival he was fu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Of course, at the very mention of the Enchanter as a rival he was furious, and I don’t know what foolish things he would not have done if Melinette had not been there to calm him down. Who acts: enchanter, I, thing, Melinette. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/57/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Pote…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/) / 57 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 57 Of course, at the very mention of the Enchanter as a rival he was furious, and I don’t know what foolish things he would not have done if Melinette had not been there to calm him down. **Who acts:** enchanter, I, thing, Melinette · **What happens:** be, not know, not do, not be, calm down, mention · **To what, where:** rival, foolish things, thing, Enchanter This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchanter, I, thing, Melinette), 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:pg7277:11:57 # text = Of course, at the very mention of the Enchanter as a rival he was furious, and I don’t know what foolish things he would not have done if Melinette had not been there to calm him down. 1 Of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 2 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 mention mention NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Enchanter Enchanter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rival rival NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 21 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 ccomp _ _ 24 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux _ _ 30 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 acl:relcl _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 Melinette Melinette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 cop _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | enchanter | a rival *not said here* | | | | furious *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **do** | would · perfect | thing | foolish things *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Melinette | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **calm down** | to-infinitive | Melinette *not said here* | thing | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 6 | **mention** | | | the Enchanter | | | | as a rival | nom mention «communication transitive»: of=patient as=obl | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/58/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)