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title: The next day Prince Narcissus had prepared for the Princess’s pleasu… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day Prince Narcissus had prepared for the Princess’s pleasure a charming arbour of leafy branches, with couches of moss and grassy floor and garlands everywhere, with her name written in different coloured blossoms. Who acts: Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Pr
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 80

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The next day Prince Narcissus had prepared for the Princess’s pleasure a charming arbour of leafy branches, with couches of moss and grassy floor and garlands everywhere, with her name written in different coloured blossoms.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** prepare, charm, write, please, name · **To what, where:** next day, name, different coloured blossoms

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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 (Princess), 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:pg7277:11:80
# text = The next day Prince Narcissus had prepared for the Princess’s pleasure a charming arbour of leafy branches, with couches of moss and grassy floor and garlands everywhere, with her name written in different coloured blossoms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	arbour	arbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	couches	couch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	garlands	garland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
34	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prepare** | past · perfect · passive |  | the next day |  |  |  | for the Princess's pleasure; everywhere *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for pleasure=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **charm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | Princess's name *not said here* |  | different coloured blossoms |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in blossom=Destination |
| 4 | **please** |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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