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title: Imagine his feelings when he arrived and was presented at once to tw… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Imagine his feelings when he arrived and was presented at once to twelve of the loveliest creatures in the world, and his embarrassment was heightened by the fact that they all liked him as much as he liked each one of them, so that things came to such a pass that he was never happy a single instant
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 132

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Imagine his feelings when he arrived and was presented at once to twelve of the loveliest creatures in the world, and his embarrassment was heightened by the fact that they all liked him as much as he liked each one of them, so that things came to such a pass that he was never happy a single instant without them.

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**Who acts:** you, Prince, fact, feelings, things · **What happens:** imagine, arrive, present, heighten, like, come · **To what, where:** feelings, twelve, embarrassment, Prince, one, pass

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Prince, fact, feelings), 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:pg7277:8:132
# text = Imagine his feelings when he arrived and was presented at once to twelve of the loveliest creatures in the world, and his embarrassment was heightened by the fact that they all liked him as much as he liked each one of them, so that things came to such a pass that he was never happy a single instant without them.
1	Imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	heightened	heighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
33	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obj	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	48	mark	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	52	det:predet	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
56	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
57	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	advcl	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
61	without	without	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | Prince's feelings |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot feeling=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **present** | past · passive | Prince *not said here* |  | twelve of the loveliest creatures in the world |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: to twelve=Recipient |
| 4 | **heighten** | past · passive | the fact | Prince's embarrassment |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **like** | past | feelings *= feeling* | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **like** | past | Prince | each one of feelings |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | past | things |  |  | such pass |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pass=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **not** **is** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | without things *= thing*; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **embarrass** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom embarrassment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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