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title: Among them came one Prince Fickle by name, who very quickly won the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Among them came one Prince Fickle by name, who very quickly won the love of fair Helena. Who acts: name. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 11

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Among them came one Prince Fickle by name, who very quickly won the love of fair Helena.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** come, win, love · **To what, where:** one Fickle, love, fair Helena

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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:pg7277:29:11
# text = Among them came one Prince Fickle by name, who very quickly won the love of fair Helena.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
6	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | one Fickle  Prince |  |  |  | among wooers *= wooer*; by name | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location |
| 2 | **win** | past | name | the love of fair Helena |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality |
| 3 | **love** |  |  | fair Helena |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=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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