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title: I confess that I was fascinated by it, and for a week thought that n… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I confess that I was fascinated by it, and for a week thought that nothing could be more desirable; the time passed like magic, so great was the charm of her society. Who acts: I, nothing, time. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 43

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I confess that I was fascinated by it, and for a week thought that nothing could be more desirable; the time passed like magic, so great was the charm of her society.

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**Who acts:** I, nothing, time · **What happens:** confess, fascinate, think, be, pass · **To what, where:** I, time, charm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, nothing, 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:pg7277:10:43
# text = I confess that I was fascinated by it, and for a week thought that nothing could be more desirable; the time passed like magic, so great was the charm of her society.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	confess	confess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	desirable	desirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confess** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fascinate** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | by wit | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  | week |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | could | nothing |  |  |  |  | desirable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | participle |  | the time *not said here* |  |  |  | like magic | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | the time | the charm |  |  |  | of Sylvia's society | tree rules |

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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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