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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 35

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But the princess felt no such happiness; in spite of all the magic delights around her she was sad, though she tried to seem content for fear of displeasing the gnome.

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**Who acts:** princess, fear · **What happens:** feel, delight, be, try, seem, displease · **To what, where:** such happiness, spite, content, gnome, magic

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, fear), 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:pg3282:31:35
# text = But the princess felt no such happiness; in spite of all the magic delights around her she was sad, though she tried to seem content for fear of displeasing the gnome.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	delights	delight	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	displeasing	displease	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the princess | no such happiness |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme |
| 2 | **delight** | present | the princess *not said here* |  |  | spite of all magic |  | around princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **seem** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | princess *not said here* | content |  |  |  | for fear | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme content=Attribute |
| 6 | **displease** | gerund | fear *not said here* | the gnome |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gnome=Experiencer |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | all magic |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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