--- title: This was the way she chose of making him fond of her; but afterwards… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This was the way she chose of making him fond of her; but afterwards, as he grew older, she spared no pains in educating and training him as a prince should be trained. Who acts: This, Fairy, Featherhead. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celand --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/14/) [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 Featherhead and the Princess Ce…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/) / 14 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 14 This was the way she chose of making him fond of her; but afterwards, as he grew older, she spared no pains in educating and training him as a prince should be trained. **Who acts:** This, Fairy, Featherhead · **What happens:** be, choose, make, grow, spare, educate · **To what, where:** way, Featherhead, pains This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Fairy, Featherhead), 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:pg7277:12:14 # text = This was the way she chose of making him fond of her; but afterwards, as he grew older, she spared no pains in educating and training him as a prince should be trained. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 fond fond ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 20 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 spared spare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 pains pain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 in in SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 educating educate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 training train VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 trained train VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | This | the way | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **choose** | past | Fairy | the way *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 3 | **make** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* | Featherhead | | | | fond *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | | 4 | **grow** | past | Featherhead | the way *not said here* | | | | afterwards, old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 5 | **spare** | past | Fairy | no pains | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset | | 6 | **educate** *speech: other* | gerund | Fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **train** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* | Featherhead | | | | as a prince | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as prince=Attribute | | 8 | **train** | should · passive | | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP» | 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/15/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)