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title: No doubt she would have gone on longer in this strain, and given the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: No doubt she would have gone on longer in this strain, and given the unhappy little Prince half-a-dozen undesirable gifts, if it had not been for the good Fairy Genesta, who held the kingdom under her special protection, and who luckily hurried in just in time to prevent further mischief. Who acts: 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 12

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No doubt she would have gone on longer in this strain, and given the unhappy little Prince half-a-dozen undesirable gifts, if it had not been for the good Fairy Genesta, who held the kingdom under her special protection, and who luckily hurried in just in time to prevent further mischief.

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**Who acts:** doubt, little Prince, strain, good Fairy · **What happens:** go on, give, gift, not be, hold, hurry · **To what, where:** kingdom, special protection, further mischief

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, little Prince, strain, good Fairy), 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:pg7277:14:12
# text = No doubt she would have gone on longer in this strain, and given the unhappy little Prince half-a-dozen undesirable gifts, if it had not been for the good Fairy Genesta, who held the kingdom under her special protection, and who luckily hurried in just in time to prevent further mischief.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
16	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	undesirable	undesirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
36	Genesta	Genesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	parataxis	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
49	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	just	just	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	acl	_	_
57	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | would · perfect | no doubt |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | participle | no doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **gift** |  | little Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | strain |  |  |  |  | for the good Fairy | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the good Fairy | the kingdom |  | doubt's special protection |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme under protection=Location |
| 6 | **hurry** | participle |  |  |  |  | time | luckily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | further mischief |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer mischief=Theme |
| 8 | **protect** |  | doubt |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act transitive»: 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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