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title: He positively could not tear his eyes away from it, and exclaimed al… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He positively could not tear his eyes away from it, and exclaimed aloud that never, never had he seen anything so lovely and so graceful. Who acts: message. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 61

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He positively could not tear his eyes away from it, and exclaimed aloud that never, never had he seen anything so lovely and so graceful.

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**Who acts:** message · **What happens:** not tear, not exclaim, not have, see · **To what, where:** eyes, anything

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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 (message), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:12:61
# text = He positively could not tear his eyes away from it, and exclaimed aloud that never, never had he seen anything so lovely and so graceful.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	ccomp	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tear** | could | message | message's eyes |  |  |  | away, positively *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location eye=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | message *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | participle | message | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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.

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