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title: But one day, when he had been begging Celandine to love him, she con… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day, when he had been begging Celandine to love him, she confided to him that it was quite impossible, since her heart was already entirely occupied by another. Who acts: Featherhead, Princess. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 162

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But one day, when he had been begging Celandine to love him, she confided to him that it was quite impossible, since her heart was already entirely occupied by another.

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**Who acts:** Featherhead, Princess · **What happens:** beg, love, confide, be, occupy · **To what, where:** Featherhead, 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 (Featherhead, 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:pg7277:12:162
# text = But one day, when he had been begging Celandine to love him, she confided to him that it was quite impossible, since her heart was already entirely occupied by another.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	amod	_	_
10	Celandine	celandine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	confided	confide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
29	already	already	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past · perfect · progressive | Featherhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* | Featherhead |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | past | Princess |  | Featherhead |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **occupy** | past · passive |  | Princess's heart |  |  |  | by another; entirely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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