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title: Prince Narcissus and Princess Potentilla lived long and happily, bel… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Narcissus and Princess Potentilla lived long and happily, beloved by all their subjects. Who acts: Narcissus. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 175

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Prince Narcissus and Princess Potentilla lived long and happily, beloved by all their subjects.

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**Who acts:** Narcissus · **What happens:** live, belov

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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 (Narcissus), 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:pg7277:11:175
# text = Prince Narcissus and Princess Potentilla lived long and happily, beloved by all their subjects.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	beloved	belov	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Narcissus  Prince and Princess Potentilla |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **belov** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by King's subjects | 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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