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title: But as the Prince began to look angry, she, with many sighs and mutt… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as the Prince began to look angry, she, with many sighs and mutterings, brought out a morsel of bread, a bowl of milk, and six plums, with which the lovers were well content: for as long as they could look at one another they really did not know what they were eating. Who acts: Prince, lovers, p
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 184

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But as the Prince began to look angry, she, with many sighs and mutterings, brought out a morsel of bread, a bowl of milk, and six plums, with which the lovers were well content: for as long as they could look at one another they really did not know what they were eating.

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**Who acts:** Prince, lovers, plums · **What happens:** begin, look, bring out, be, not know, eat · **To what, where:** morsel, well content · **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 (Prince, lovers, plums), 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:pg7277:12:184
# text = But as the Prince began to look angry, she, with many sighs and mutterings, brought out a morsel of bread, a bowl of milk, and six plums, with which the lovers were well content: for as long as they could look at one another they really did not know what they were eating.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	mutterings	muttering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	obl	_	_
51	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	50	fixed	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
53	really	really	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	_
57	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	60	obj	_	_
58	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
59	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
60	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | the Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bring out** | participle | the Prince *not said here* | a morsel of bread and a bowl of milk |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the lovers | well content |  |  |  | with six plums; long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **look** | could | plums *= plum* |  |  |  |  | at one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | plums *= plum* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **eat** | past · progressive | plums *= plum* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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