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title: Grannonia could keep silence no longer, and throwing off her peasant… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Grannonia could keep silence no longer, and throwing off her peasant’s disguise, she discovered herself to the Prince, who was nearly beside himself with joy when he recognised his fair lady-love. Who acts: Grannonia, Prince. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 78

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Grannonia could keep silence no longer, and throwing off her peasant’s disguise, she discovered herself to the Prince, who was nearly beside himself with joy when he recognised his fair lady-love.

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**Who acts:** Grannonia, Prince · **What happens:** keep, throw off, discover, be, recognise, love · **To what, where:** silence, disguise, Grannonia, fair lady love

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia, Prince), 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:pg7277:25:78
# text = Grannonia could keep silence no longer, and throwing off her peasant’s disguise, she discovered herself to the Prince, who was nearly beside himself with joy when he recognised his fair lady-love.
1	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	disguise	disguise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	nmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | could | Grannonia | silence |  |  |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
| 2 | **throw off** | gerund | Grannonia *not said here* | Grannonia's peasant's disguise |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme |
| 3 | **discover** | past | Grannonia | Grannonia |  |  |  | to the Prince; with joy | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | beside Prince; nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **recognise** | past | Prince | Prince's fair lady love |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus |
| 6 | **love** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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