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title: The Fairy finally made Narcissus promise that he would remain invisi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fairy finally made Narcissus promise that he would remain invisible when he was with the Princess, since she felt sure that this would make things easier for all of them. Who acts: Fairy, enchanter, this. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Pote
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 60

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The Fairy finally made Narcissus promise that he would remain invisible when he was with the Princess, since she felt sure that this would make things easier for all of them.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, enchanter, this · **What happens:** make, remain, be, feel · **To what, where:** Narcissus promise, things

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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 (Fairy, enchanter, this), 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:pg7277:11:60
# text = The Fairy finally made Narcissus promise that he would remain invisible when he was with the Princess, since she felt sure that this would make things easier for all of them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
27	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Fairy | Narcissus promise |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product |
| 2 | **remain** | would | enchanter | Narcissus promise *not said here* |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme promise=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | enchanter |  |  |  |  | with the Princess | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **make** | would | this | things |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |

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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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