--- title: Only, she said, he must take very great care not to be seen, as it w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Only, she said, he must take very great care not to be seen, as it would be as much as her place was worth to be caught helping King Charming to see the Princess. Who acts: Fiordelisa, squire, care, place. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/75/) [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/) / [The Blue Bird, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/) / 75 # The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 75 Only, she said, he must take very great care not to be seen, as it would be as much as her place was worth to be caught helping King Charming to see the Princess. **Who acts:** Fiordelisa, squire, care, place · **What happens:** say, take, not see, be, catch, help · **To what, where:** great care, Charming, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiordelisa, squire, care, place), 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:pg7277:2:75 # text = Only, she said, he must take very great care not to be seen, as it would be as much as her place was worth to be caught helping King Charming to see the Princess. 1 Only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 very very ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 19 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 cop _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 advcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 31 helping help VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ _ 32 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:desc _ _ 33 Charming Charming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fiordelisa | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** | must | squire | great care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 3 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive · passive | squire *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **is** | would | care | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | Fiordelisa's place | | | | | worth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **catch** | to-infinitive · passive | Fiordelisa's place *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **help** | gerund | Fiordelisa's place *not said here* | | Charming King | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Beneficiary | | 8 | **see** | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa's place *not said here* | the Princess | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/76/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/2/)