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title: ‘Kneel, little calf, kneel; Be faithful and leal, Not like Prince Fi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Kneel, little calf, kneel; Be faithful and leal, Not like Prince Fickle, Who once on a time Left his poor Helena Under the lime.’ Who acts: time. 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 31

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‘Kneel, little calf, kneel; Be faithful and leal, Not like Prince Fickle, Who once on a time Left his poor Helena Under the lime.’

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**Who acts:** time · **What happens:** be, leave · **To what, where:** poor Helena, lime

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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 (time), 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:pg7277:29:31
# text = ‘Kneel, little calf, kneel; Be faithful and leal, Not like Prince Fickle, Who once on a time Left his poor Helena Under the lime.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kneel	kneel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	kneel	kneel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	leal	leal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:desc	_	_
17	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lime	lime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like Fickle  Prince; faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | participle | a time *not said here* | Prince's poor Helena |  | the lime |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent helena=Theme under lime=Location |

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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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