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title: Far from avoiding her, he now sought her company and seemed to take… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Far from avoiding her, he now sought her company and seemed to take pleasure in talking to her, and yet the Princess did not for a moment flatter herself with the idea that he was in love with her, though it did not take her long to decide that he certainly loved someone. Who acts: message, Princess
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 66

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Far from avoiding her, he now sought her company and seemed to take pleasure in talking to her, and yet the Princess did not for a moment flatter herself with the idea that he was in love with her, though it did not take her long to decide that he certainly loved someone.

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**Who acts:** message, Princess, it · **What happens:** avoid, seek, seem, take, talk, not do · **To what, where:** Queen, company, pleasure, idea, love, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Princess, it), 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:pg7277:12:66
# text = Far from avoiding her, he now sought her company and seemed to take pleasure in talking to her, and yet the Princess did not for a moment flatter herself with the idea that he was in love with her, though it did not take her long to decide that he certainly loved someone.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	avoiding	avoid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	flatter	flat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	acl	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	advcl	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
54	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	ccomp	_	_
56	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avoid** | gerund | message *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location |
| 2 | **seek** | past | message | Queen's company |  |  | now | far *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | message *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | message *not said here* | pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** | gerund | message *not said here* |  | Queen |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **not** **do** | past | the Princess |  |  |  | yet; moment | with the idea | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | message | the idea *not said here* |  | love |  | with Queen | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **decide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 10 | **love** | past | message | someone |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=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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