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title: These rings seem to be quite common; you must often have heard of th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These rings seem to be quite common; you must often have heard of them, even if you have never seen one. Who acts: rings, you. 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 20

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These rings seem to be quite common; you must often have heard of them, even if you have never seen one.

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**Who acts:** rings, you · **What happens:** seem, be, hear, not see · **To what, where:** one

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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 (rings, you), 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:pg7277:11:20
# text = These rings seem to be quite common; you must often have heard of them, even if you have never seen one.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | this rings |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | this rings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | must · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | of parents *= parent*; often *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you | one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |

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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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