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title: Prince Narcissus watched her every movement, and hovered near her in… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Narcissus watched her every movement, and hovered near her in a dream of delight, not daring as yet to appear to her, so humble had he suddenly become in her presence. Who acts: Prince, humble. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 28

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Prince Narcissus watched her every movement, and hovered near her in a dream of delight, not daring as yet to appear to her, so humble had he suddenly become in her presence.

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**Who acts:** Prince, humble · **What happens:** watch, hover, not dare, appear, have, become · **To what, where:** Princess, dream, presence, delight

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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 (Prince, humble), 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:pg7277:11:28
# text = Prince Narcissus watched her every movement, and hovered near her in a dream of delight, not daring as yet to appear to her, so humble had he suddenly become in her presence.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | past | Prince | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme movement=Attribute |
| 2 | **hover** | past | Prince *not said here* |  |  | a dream of delight |  | near Princess | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
| 3 | **not** **dare** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **appear** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  | Princess |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | humble |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | present | Prince |  |  |  |  | in Princess's presence *result*; suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in presence=Result |
| 7 | **dream** |  |  | delight |  |  |  |  | nom dream «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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