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title: But as soon as the youth had the beard in his hands he felt so stron… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as soon as the youth had the beard in his hands he felt so strong that he was fit for anything, and he perceived all sorts of things in the castle that he had not noticed before, but, on the other hand, all strength seemed to have gone from the little man. Who acts: beard, strength. A sentence o
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 40

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But as soon as the youth had the beard in his hands he felt so strong that he was fit for anything, and he perceived all sorts of things in the castle that he had not noticed before, but, on the other hand, all strength seemed to have gone from the little man.

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**Who acts:** beard, strength · **What happens:** have, feel, be, perceive, not notice, seem · **To what, where:** beard, hands, sorts, castle, other hand, things

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beard, strength), 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:pg7277:55:40
# text = But as soon as the youth had the beard in his hands he felt so strong that he was fit for anything, and he perceived all sorts of things in the castle that he had not noticed before, but, on the other hand, all strength seemed to have gone from the little man.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
39	before	before	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux	_	_
53	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	xcomp	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | beard *not said here* | the beard |  | beard's hands |  | as the youth; soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient |
| 2 | **feel** | past | beard |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | beard |  |  |  |  | for anything; fit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **perceive** | past | beard | all sorts of things |  | the castle |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **notice** | past · perfect | beard |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **seem** | past | all strength |  |  | the other hand |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive · perfect | all strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the little man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from man=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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