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title: This sudden appearance was so delightful that the princess could har… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This sudden appearance was so delightful that the princess could hardly believe her own eyes, and was quite beside herself with the joy of having her dear playfellow with her once more. Who acts: sudden appearance, princess, joy. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy B
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 46

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This sudden appearance was so delightful that the princess could hardly believe her own eyes, and was quite beside herself with the joy of having her dear playfellow with her once more.

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**Who acts:** sudden appearance, princess, joy · **What happens:** be, believe, have · **To what, where:** own eyes, dear playfellow

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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 (sudden appearance, princess, joy), 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:pg3282:31:46
# text = This sudden appearance was so delightful that the princess could hardly believe her own eyes, and was quite beside herself with the joy of having her dear playfellow with her once more.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	playfellow	playfellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	33	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this sudden appearance |  |  |  |  | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **believe** | could | the princess |  | princess's own eyes |  |  | hardly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | beside princess; with the joy | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | the joy *not said here* | princess's dear playfellow |  |  |  | with princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playfellow=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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