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title: This she was all the more inclined to do as she loved children, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This she was all the more inclined to do as she loved children, and little Prince Featherhead, who never cried and grew prettier day by day, quite won her heart. Who acts: This, Fairy, little Prince Featherhead. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 12

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This she was all the more inclined to do as she loved children, and little Prince Featherhead, who never cried and grew prettier day by day, quite won her heart.

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**Who acts:** This, Fairy, little Prince Featherhead · **What happens:** be, do, love, not cry, grow, win · **To what, where:** children, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Fairy, little Prince Featherhead), 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:pg7277:12:12
# text = This she was all the more inclined to do as she loved children, and little Prince Featherhead, who never cried and grew prettier day by day, quite won her heart.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
25	prettier	pretty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | This |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **love** | past | Fairy | children |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **cry** *speech: express* | past | little Prince Featherhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | past | little Prince Featherhead *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **win** | past | little Prince Featherhead *not said here* | Fairy's heart |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |

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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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