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title: Celandine, absorbed in her own sad thoughts, did not even hear this… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Celandine, absorbed in her own sad thoughts, did not even hear this prudent counsel, and quite forgot to eat her share of the plum, which delighted the old woman, who put it by carefully for her breakfast, saying: Who acts: plum, old woman, visitor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 140

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Celandine, absorbed in her own sad thoughts, did not even hear this prudent counsel, and quite forgot to eat her share of the plum, which delighted the old woman, who put it by carefully for her breakfast, saying:

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**Who acts:** plum, old woman, visitor · **What happens:** absorb, not hear, forget, not eat, delight, put · **To what, where:** Celandine, own sad thoughts, prudent counsel, share, old woman, plum · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (plum, old woman, visitor), 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:pg7277:12:140
# text = Celandine, absorbed in her own sad thoughts, did not even hear this prudent counsel, and quite forgot to eat her share of the plum, which delighted the old woman, who put it by carefully for her breakfast, saying:
1	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	absorbed	absorb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	delighted	delight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	36	obl	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absorb** | participle |  | Celandine *not said here* |  | visitor's own sad thoughts |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | past · do-support |  | this prudent counsel |  |  |  | Celandine *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus |
| 3 | **forget** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive |  | visitor's share of the plum |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient |
| 5 | **delight** | past | the plum | the old woman |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer |
| 6 | **put** | past | the old woman | share |  |  |  | for visitor's breakfast | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme by carefully=Destination |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **think** |  | visitor |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **share** |  | visitor | the plum |  |  |  |  | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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