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title: This curious vow had up to this time frightened away all suitors, bu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This curious vow had up to this time frightened away all suitors, but the young man was so captivated by her beauty, that he hesitated at nothing and asked her hand of her father. Who acts: curious vow, time, beauty, man. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, w
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 13

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This curious vow had up to this time frightened away all suitors, but the young man was so captivated by her beauty, that he hesitated at nothing and asked her hand of her father.

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**Who acts:** curious vow, time, beauty, man · **What happens:** have up, frighten away, captivate, hesitate, ask · **To what, where:** suitors, young man, nothing, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curious vow, time, beauty, man), 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:pg7277:46:13
# text = This curious vow had up to this time frightened away all suitors, but the young man was so captivated by her beauty, that he hesitated at nothing and asked her hand of her father.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	captivated	captivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have up** | past | this curious vow |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **frighten away** | participle | this time *not said here* | all suitors |  |  |  | away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suitor=Experiencer |
| 3 | **captivate** | past · passive | vow's beauty | the young man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hesitate** | past | man |  |  | nothing |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at nothing=Location |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | man *not said here* | vow's hand of vow's father |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient |

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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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