--- title: If I had before this time seen the portrait of your beautiful daught… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If I had before this time seen the portrait of your beautiful daughter Sabella I should not have permitted all these adventurers and petty Princes to be dancing attendance and getting themselves frozen with the absurd idea of meriting her hand. Who acts: I, time, adventurers, absurd idea. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, time, adventurers, absurd idea), 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:pg7277:16:45 # text = If I had before this time seen the portrait of your beautiful daughter Sabella I should not have permitted all these adventurers and petty Princes to be dancing attendance and getting themselves frozen with the absurd idea of meriting her hand. 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 Sabella Sabella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ _ 19 permitted permit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 adventurers adventurer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 petty petty NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 Princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux _ _ 28 dancing dance VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 29 attendance attendance NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 32 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 absurd absurd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 of of SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 meriting merit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 acl _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | I | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | participle | this time *not said here* | the portrait of your beautiful daughter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **permit** | should · perfect | I | all adventurers and petty Princes | | | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventurer=Theme | | 4 | **dance** | to-infinitive · progressive | I *not said here* | attendance | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location attendance=Theme | | 5 | **get** | gerund | I *not said here* | adventurers *= adventurer* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **freeze** | participle | adventurers *= adventurer* *not said here* | | | | | with the absurd idea | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with idea=Theme | | 7 | **merit** | gerund | the absurd idea *not said here* | Sabella's hand | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **portray** | | | your beautiful daughter | | | | | nom portrait «communication 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/46/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/)