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title: The Prince was still sitting by the door and had been so happy in th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince was still sitting by the door and had been so happy in the maiden’s company that the time had seemed like a single hour. Who acts: Prince, time. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 18

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The Prince was still sitting by the door and had been so happy in the maiden’s company that the time had seemed like a single hour.

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**Who acts:** Prince, time · **What happens:** sit, be, have, seem · **To what, where:** company

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, time), 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:pg503:26:18
# text = The Prince was still sitting by the door and had been so happy in the maiden’s company that the time had seemed like a single hour.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl	_	_
23	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the Prince |  |  |  | still | by the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the Prince *not said here* |  |  | the maiden's company |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seem** | past | the time | the maiden's company |  |  | hour |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Attribute |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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