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title: PRINCE FICKLE AND FAIR HELENA (From the German) — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: PRINCE FICKLE AND FAIR HELENA (From the German) A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 109

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PRINCE FICKLE AND FAIR HELENA (From the German)

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:28:109
# text = PRINCE FICKLE AND FAIR HELENA (From the German)
1	PRINCE	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	FICKLE	FICKLE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	FAIR	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	HELENA	HELENA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	From	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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