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title: They greeted one another rapturously, and were just sitting down to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They greeted one another rapturously, and were just sitting down to talk over everything cosily, and enjoy the Enchanter’s discomfiture together, when out he burst in a fury from behind a bush. Who acts: anxiety, enchanter. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and th
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 102

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They greeted one another rapturously, and were just sitting down to talk over everything cosily, and enjoy the Enchanter’s discomfiture together, when out he burst in a fury from behind a bush.

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**Who acts:** anxiety, enchanter · **What happens:** greet, sit down, talk, enjoy, burst, discomfit · **To what, where:** one, everything, discomfiture, fury

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anxiety, enchanter), 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:pg7277:11:102
# text = They greeted one another rapturously, and were just sitting down to talk over everything cosily, and enjoy the Enchanter’s discomfiture together, when out he burst in a fury from behind a bush.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	fixed	_	_
5	rapturously	rapturously	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	_
16	cosily	cosily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	discomfiture	discomfiture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | anxiety | one |  |  |  | rapturously *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past · progressive | anxiety *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | to-infinitive | anxiety *not said here* |  |  | everything |  | cosily *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enjoy** | infinitive |  | the Enchanter's discomfiture |  |  |  | together *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer discomfiture=Stimulus |
| 5 | **burst** | past | enchanter |  |  | a fury |  | from a bush | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Location |
| 6 | **discomfit** |  | the Enchanter |  |  |  |  |  | nom discomfiture «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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