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title: This he did, but afterwards wished to kiss the Princess’s hand as a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This he did, but afterwards wished to kiss the Princess’s hand as a reward for having been so obliging; but the Fairy Melinette was not going to allow anything of that kind. Who acts: This, reward, Fairy Melinette. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princes
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 51

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This he did, but afterwards wished to kiss the Princess’s hand as a reward for having been so obliging; but the Fairy Melinette was not going to allow anything of that kind.

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**Who acts:** This, reward, Fairy Melinette · **What happens:** do, wish, kiss, oblige, not go, allow · **To what, where:** hand, anything

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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 (This, reward, Fairy Melinette), 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:pg7277:11:51
# text = This he did, but afterwards wished to kiss the Princess’s hand as a reward for having been so obliging; but the Fairy Melinette was not going to allow anything of that kind.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	reward	reward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	obliging	oblige	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Melinette	Melinette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	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 | **do** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wish** | participle | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **kiss** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the Princess's hand |  |  |  | as a reward | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **oblige** | gerund · perfect · progressive | a reward *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **go** | past · progressive | the Fairy Melinette |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **allow** | to-infinitive | the Fairy Melinette *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Beneficiary |

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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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