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title: Poor Potentilla, however, had not the comfort of knowing this, for a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Potentilla, however, had not the comfort of knowing this, for at the sight of the Enchanter threatening her beloved Prince she had given one shriek and fallen back insensible. Who acts: Poor Potentilla, comfort, Enchanter, Potentilla. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 104

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Poor Potentilla, however, had not the comfort of knowing this, for at the sight of the Enchanter threatening her beloved Prince she had given one shriek and fallen back insensible.

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**Who acts:** Poor Potentilla, comfort, Enchanter, Potentilla · **What happens:** have, know, threaten, give, fall back, sight · **To what, where:** comfort, this, beloved Prince, one shriek, Enchanter

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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 (Poor Potentilla, comfort, Enchanter, Potentilla), 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:pg7277:11:104
# text = Poor Potentilla, however, had not the comfort of knowing this, for at the sight of the Enchanter threatening her beloved Prince she had given one shriek and fallen back insensible.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Enchanter	enchanter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	threatening	threaten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	insensible	insensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Poor Potentilla | the comfort |  |  |  | for the sight of the Enchanter; however *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comfort=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | the comfort *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **threaten** | gerund | the Enchanter *not said here* | Potentilla's beloved Prince |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect | Potentilla | one shriek |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme |
| 5 | **fall back** | participle | Potentilla *not said here* |  |  |  |  | insensible *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the Enchanter |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 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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