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title: Nevertheless, that was what did happen, for when Queen Frivola in je… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, that was what did happen, for when Queen Frivola in jest held out the fatal cup to the Princess, she took it eagerly, crying: Who acts: that, Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 167

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Nevertheless, that was what did happen, for when Queen Frivola in jest held out the fatal cup to the Princess, she took it eagerly, crying:

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**Who acts:** that, Princess · **What happens:** be, hold out, take, cry · **To what, where:** Frivola, jest

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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 (that, 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:pg7277:11:167
# text = Nevertheless, that was what did happen, for when Queen Frivola in jest held out the fatal cup to the Princess, she took it eagerly, crying:
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Frivola	Frivola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · do-support | that |  |  |  |  | happen, nevertheless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold out** | participle · passive |  | Frivola  Queen in jest |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme cup=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take** | past | Princess | jest |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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