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title: This declaration was not at all to the Enchanter’s taste; but he kne… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This declaration was not at all to the Enchanter’s taste; but he knew that there was no help for it, and that he would have to behave well, and pay the Princess all the delicate attentions he could think of; though they were not at all the sort of thing he was used to. Who acts: declaration, help, t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 55

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This declaration was not at all to the Enchanter’s taste; but he knew that there was no help for it, and that he would have to behave well, and pay the Princess all the delicate attentions he could think of; though they were not at all the sort of thing he was used to.

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**Who acts:** declaration, help, tastes, Enchanter · **What happens:** know, be, have, behave, pay, think · **To what, where:** Princess, delicate attentions, sort, help · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (declaration, help, tastes, Enchanter), 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:pg7277:11:55
# text = This declaration was not at all to the Enchanter’s taste; but he knew that there was no help for it, and that he would have to behave well, and pay the Princess all the delicate attentions he could think of; though they were not at all the sort of thing he was used to.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	declaration	declaration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	behave	behave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	attentions	attention	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
46	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
50	at	at	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	53	det:predet	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
58	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl:relcl	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | this declaration to the Enchanter's taste |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | past | no help for heart |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | would | help |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **behave** | to-infinitive | help *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pay** | infinitive | help *not said here* |  | the Princess |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient attention=Asset |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | could | help | all delicate attentions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot attention=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past | tastes *= taste* |  |  | all sort |  | of thing | tree rules |
| 8 | **use** | past · passive |  | help |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **taste** |  | the Enchanter |  |  |  |  |  | nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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