--- title: When the time came for the performance (which lasted five weary hour… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the time came for the performance (which lasted five weary hours) the Princess found to her dismay that the ‘opera’ consisted of this more than indifferent verse, chanted with all their might by ten thousand frogs: Who acts: time, performance, Princess, opera. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, performance, Princess, opera), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:11:65 # text = When the time came for the performance (which lasted five weary hours) the Princess found to her dismay that the ‘opera’ consisted of this more than indifferent verse, chanted with all their might by ten thousand frogs: 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 performance performance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 lasted last VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 12 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 dismay dismay NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 opera opera NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 consisted consist VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 ccomp _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obl _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 obj _ _ 30 than than ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 indifferent indifferent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 verse verse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 chanted chant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 parataxis _ _ 35 with with SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 38 det:predet _ _ 37 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 compound _ _ 41 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the time | | | | | for the performance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **last** | past | the performance | | | | hour | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | the Princess | | | | | to Princess's dismay | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **consist** | participle | the opera | more | | | | of this | tree rules | | 5 | **chant** | participle | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dismay** | | Princess | | | | | | nom dismay «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/66/) - ↑ back to [Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/11/)