---
title: She would certainly have betrayed that this was not the kind of narc… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She would certainly have betrayed that this was not the kind of narcissus she wanted, but for the Fairy Melinette, who had been anxiously watching the interview, and now thought it quite time to interfere. Who acts: Princess, this, Fairy, interview. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/46/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Pote…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/) / 46

# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 46

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She would certainly have betrayed that this was not the kind of narcissus she wanted, but for the Fairy Melinette, who had been anxiously watching the interview, and now thought it quite time to interfere.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Princess, this, Fairy, interview · **What happens:** betray, not be, want, watch, think, time · **To what, where:** kind, narcissus, interview · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, this, Fairy, interview), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7277:11:46
# text = She would certainly have betrayed that this was not the kind of narcissus she wanted, but for the Fairy Melinette, who had been anxiously watching the interview, and now thought it quite time to interfere.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	betrayed	betray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	narcissus	narcissus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
21	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux	_	_
26	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	interfere	interfere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **betray** | would · perfect | Princess |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | this | the kind |  |  |  | of narcissus | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | past | Princess | narcissus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot narcissus=Theme |
| 4 | **watch** | past · perfect · progressive | the Fairy | the interview |  |  |  | anxiously *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interview=Theme |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the Fairy |  |  |  | now |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **time** |  | interview |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **interfere** | to-infinitive | the Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/45/)
- next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/47/)
- ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)