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title: Balls, masquerades, and picnics followed one another in rapid succes… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Balls, masquerades, and picnics followed one another in rapid succession, as fast as she could arrange them, and you may imagine that under these circumstances the kingdom was somewhat neglected. Who acts: Balls, Queen, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 5

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Balls, masquerades, and picnics followed one another in rapid succession, as fast as she could arrange them, and you may imagine that under these circumstances the kingdom was somewhat neglected.

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**Who acts:** Balls, Queen, you · **What happens:** follow, arrange, imagine, neglect · **To what, where:** one, rapid succession, picnics, kingdom, circumstances

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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 (Balls, Queen, 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:pg7277:11:5
# text = Balls, masquerades, and picnics followed one another in rapid succession, as fast as she could arrange them, and you may imagine that under these circumstances the kingdom was somewhat neglected.
1	Balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	masquerades	masquerade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	picnics	picnic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	fixed	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	succession	succession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	arrange	arrange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
27	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
33	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	neglected	neglect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Balls and masquerades | one |  | rapid succession |  | fast *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme in succession=Trajectory |
| 2 | **arrange** | could | Queen | picnics *= picnic* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 3 | **imagine** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **neglect** | past · passive |  | the kingdom |  | this circumstances |  | somewhat *property* | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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