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title: Celandine was deeply mortified, since for her part the Prince please… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Celandine was deeply mortified, since for her part the Prince pleased her very well, and for the first time she bitterly regretted the fairy gifts she had been anxious to get rid of. Who acts: Prince, Princess. 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 55

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Celandine was deeply mortified, since for her part the Prince pleased her very well, and for the first time she bitterly regretted the fairy gifts she had been anxious to get rid of.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Princess · **What happens:** mortify, please, regret, be, get · **To what, where:** Celandine, Princess, fairy gifts

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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, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:953`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:12:55
# text = Celandine was deeply mortified, since for her part the Prince pleased her very well, and for the first time she bitterly regretted the fairy gifts she had been anxious to get rid of.
1	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	mortified	mortify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pleased	please	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	regretted	regret	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mortify** | past · passive |  | Celandine |  |  |  | deeply *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **please** | past | the Prince | Princess |  |  |  | for Princess's part; well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 3 | **regret** | past | Princess | the fairy gifts |  |  | time | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gift=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | Princess | the fairy gifts *not said here* |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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