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title: Now the Princess was indeed unhappy, and could no longer bear to sta… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Princess was indeed unhappy, and could no longer bear to stay in a place where she had been so cruelly disdained. Who acts: Princess. 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 claus
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 87

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Now the Princess was indeed unhappy, and could no longer bear to stay in a place where she had been so cruelly disdained.

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**Who acts:** Princess · **What happens:** be, stay, disdain · **To what, where:** place, Princess

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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 (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:pg7277:12:87
# text = Now the Princess was indeed unhappy, and could no longer bear to stay in a place where she had been so cruelly disdained.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	disdained	disdain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  |  | now | indeed, unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* |  |  | a place |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 3 | **disdain** | past · perfect · passive |  | Princess |  |  |  | cruelly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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