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title: In a moment the Princess Hyacinthia had changed herself, the Prince,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment the Princess Hyacinthia had changed herself, the Prince, and his charger into a thick wood where a thousand paths and roads crossed each other. Who acts: Princess Hyacinthia, thousand paths. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 45

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In a moment the Princess Hyacinthia had changed herself, the Prince, and his charger into a thick wood where a thousand paths and roads crossed each other.

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**Who acts:** Princess Hyacinthia, thousand paths · **What happens:** change, cross · **To what, where:** road, thick wood, each

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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: who acts (Princess Hyacinthia, thousand paths), 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:pg7277:28:45
# text = In a moment the Princess Hyacinthia had changed herself, the Prince, and his charger into a thick wood where a thousand paths and roads crossed each other.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Hyacinthia	Hyacinthia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	paths	path	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	27	obj	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · perfect | the Princess Hyacinthia | road |  |  | moment | into a thick wood *result*; the Prince *obl*; Hyacinthia's charger *obl* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into wood=Result |
| 2 | **cross** | past | thousand paths and roads | each |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient |

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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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