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title: And the Princess, who had learnt to find diversion in very small thi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Princess, who had learnt to find diversion in very small things in her quiet life, was in a continual state of delight over the treasures which the Prince constantly laid where she must find them. Who acts: Princess, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narciss
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 32

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And the Princess, who had learnt to find diversion in very small things in her quiet life, was in a continual state of delight over the treasures which the Prince constantly laid where she must find them.

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**Who acts:** Princess, Prince · **What happens:** learn, find, be, lay · **To what, where:** diversion, small things, continual state, treasures, answers

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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 (Princess, Prince), 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:pg7277:11:32
# text = And the Princess, who had learnt to find diversion in very small things in her quiet life, was in a continual state of delight over the treasures which the Prince constantly laid where she must find them.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	diversion	diversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past · perfect | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | diversion |  | small things in Princess's quiet life |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diversion=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  | a continual state |  | of delight over the treasures | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | past | the Prince | the treasures |  |  |  | constantly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | must | Princess | answers *= answer* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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