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title: Prince Mannikin was quite of the same opinion; nevertheless he said… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Mannikin was quite of the same opinion; nevertheless he said what we should all have said in the same circumstances: Who acts: Mannikin, we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 22

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Prince Mannikin was quite of the same opinion; nevertheless he said what we should all have said in the same circumstances:

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**Who acts:** Mannikin, we · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** same circumstances · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin, we), 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:pg7277:15:22
# text = Prince Mannikin was quite of the same opinion; nevertheless he said what we should all have said in the same circumstances:
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mannikin  Prince |  |  |  |  | of the same opinion | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mannikin |  |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | should · perfect | we |  |  | the same circumstances |  | all *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme in circumstance=Manner |

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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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