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title: Now, indeed, they were perfectly happy, and they passed the whole lo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, indeed, they were perfectly happy, and they passed the whole long summer day in Potentilla’s favourite place by the brook, and when at last Prince Narcissus had to leave her it seemed to them both that the hours had gone by with the most amazing swiftness. Who acts: talks, last Narcissus, it, h
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 35

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Now, indeed, they were perfectly happy, and they passed the whole long summer day in Potentilla’s favourite place by the brook, and when at last Prince Narcissus had to leave her it seemed to them both that the hours had gone by with the most amazing swiftness.

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**Who acts:** talks, last Narcissus, it, hours · **What happens:** be, pass, have, leave, seem, go · **To what, where:** Princess, talks

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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 (talks, last Narcissus, it, hours), 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:pg7277:11:35
# text = Now, indeed, they were perfectly happy, and they passed the whole long summer day in Potentilla’s favourite place by the brook, and when at last Prince Narcissus had to leave her it seemed to them both that the hours had gone by with the most amazing swiftness.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:desc	_	_
32	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	both	both	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	xcomp	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	51	advmod	_	_
51	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | talks *= talk* |  |  |  | now | happy, indeed, perfectly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | past | talks *= talk* |  |  |  | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | last Narcissus  Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | last Narcissus  Prince *not said here* | Princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** | past | it |  | talks *= talk* |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | the hours |  |  |  |  | by the amazing swiftness; both *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by swiftness=Location |

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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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