--- title: Then he began to think that it was too absurd that he, the fascinati… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he began to think that it was too absurd that he, the fascinating Featherhead, should fall in love with a portrait; and, to drive away the recollections of its haunting eyes, he rushed back to the town; but somehow everything seemed changed. Who acts: message, portrait. A sentence of «The Green --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/62/) [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/) / 62 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 62 Then he began to think that it was too absurd that he, the fascinating Featherhead, should fall in love with a portrait; and, to drive away the recollections of its haunting eyes, he rushed back to the town; but somehow everything seemed changed. **Who acts:** message, portrait · **What happens:** begin, think, be, fall, drive away, rush back · **To what, where:** love, recollections, everything, haunting eyes · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, portrait), 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:pg7277:12:62 # text = Then he began to think that it was too absurd that he, the fascinating Featherhead, should fall in love with a portrait; and, to drive away the recollections of its haunting eyes, he rushed back to the town; but somehow everything seemed changed. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 absurd absurd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 11 that that ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 fascinating fascinating ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Featherhead featherhead NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 30 away away ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 recollections recollection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 haunting haunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 40 back back ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 47 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 48 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 aux:pass _ _ 49 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | message | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | message *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | portrait | | | | | that message; absurd *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | should | message *not said here* | | | love | | with a portrait | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 5 | **drive away** | to-infinitive | | the recollections of portrait's haunting eyes | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme recollection=Trajectory | | 6 | **rush back** | past | message | | | | | to the town *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | | 7 | **change** | past · passive | | everything | | | | somehow *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **recollect** | | | portrait's haunting eyes | | | | | nom recollection «cognition 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 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/63/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)