--- title: Prince Vivien was fully aware of the feeling in his favour, but bein… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Vivien was fully aware of the feeling in his favour, but being too honourable to wish to injure his pretty cousin, and perhaps too impatient and volatile to care to think seriously about anything, he suddenly took it into his head that he would go off by himself in search of adventure. 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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 (Vivien), 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:pg7277:36:12 # text = Prince Vivien was fully aware of the feeling in his favour, but being too honourable to wish to injure his pretty cousin, and perhaps too impatient and volatile to care to think seriously about anything, he suddenly took it into his head that he would go off by himself in search of adventure. 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Vivien Vivien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 fully fully ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 aware aware ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 favour favour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 cop _ _ 15 too too ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 honourable honourable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 wish wish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 injure injure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 impatient impatient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 volatile volatile NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 50 off off ADP RP _ 49 compound:prt _ _ 51 by by ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 49 obl _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 search search NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Vivien Prince | | | | | of the feeling in Vivien's favour; aware, fully *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | gerund | Vivien Prince *not said here* | | | | | honourable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wish** | to-infinitive | Vivien Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **injure** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Vivien Prince *not said here* | Vivien's pretty cousin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | Vivien Prince *not said here* | | | | | perhaps *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **care** | to-infinitive | Vivien Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Vivien Prince *not said here* | | | | | about anything; seriously *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic | | 8 | **take** | past | Vivien | volatile | | Vivien's head | | suddenly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination | | 9 | **go off** | would | Vivien | | | search of adventure | | by Vivien | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by himself=Location | | 10 | **favour** | | Vivien | | | | | | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **search** | | | adventure | | | | | nom search «act 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/13/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/)