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title: After that he came every day in the hope of meeting her again, and o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After that he came every day in the hope of meeting her again, and often expressed his delight at being with her. Who acts: Featherhead, hope. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 161

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After that he came every day in the hope of meeting her again, and often expressed his delight at being with her.

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**Who acts:** Featherhead, hope · **What happens:** come, meet, express, be, delight · **To what, where:** Princess, delight

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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 (Featherhead, hope), 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:pg7277:12:161
# text = After that he came every day in the hope of meeting her again, and often expressed his delight at being with her.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Featherhead |  |  |  | after that; day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | Princess |  |  | again |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **express** | past | Featherhead *not said here* | Featherhead's delight |  |  |  | often *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delight=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at Princess | tree rules |
| 5 | **delight** |  | Featherhead |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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