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title: Meanwhile matters were advancing rapidly in the court of King Clover… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile matters were advancing rapidly in the court of King Cloverleaf, for the Queen quite made up her mind that such a beauty as Potentilla must be got out of the way as quickly as possible. Who acts: Meanwhile matters, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 159

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Meanwhile matters were advancing rapidly in the court of King Cloverleaf, for the Queen quite made up her mind that such a beauty as Potentilla must be got out of the way as quickly as possible.

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**Who acts:** Meanwhile matters, Queen · **What happens:** advance, make up, get out, mind · **To what, where:** court, mind, beauty, way

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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 (Meanwhile matters, Queen), 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:pg7277:11:159
# text = Meanwhile matters were advancing rapidly in the court of King Cloverleaf, for the Queen quite made up her mind that such a beauty as Potentilla must be got out of the way as quickly as possible.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cloverleaf	cloverleaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **advance** | past · progressive | Meanwhile matters |  |  | the court of King Cloverleaf |  | rapidly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **make up** | past | the Queen | Queen's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **get out** | must · passive |  | such beauty as Potentilla |  | the way |  | quickly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mind** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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