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title: There she met two Genii who had been fighting fiercely for two years… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There she met two Genii who had been fighting fiercely for two years, without one having got the least advantage over the other. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 3

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There she met two Genii who had been fighting fiercely for two years, without one having got the least advantage over the other.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** meet, fight, have, get · **To what, where:** two Genii, least advantage, other

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg641:39:3
# text = There she met two Genii who had been fighting fiercely for two years, without one having got the least advantage over the other.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
17	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	nsubj	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | princess | two Genii |  | there |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genii=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  |  | year | fiercely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | past |  | the least advantage |  | the other |  | without one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advantage=Stimulus |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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