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title: On the third evening Prince Fickle was so impatient to see his fair… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third evening Prince Fickle was so impatient to see his fair enchantress again, that he arrived at the feast hours before it began, and never took his eyes from the door. Who acts: Prince, enchantress. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4, with its depend
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 48

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On the third evening Prince Fickle was so impatient to see his fair enchantress again, that he arrived at the feast hours before it began, and never took his eyes from the door.

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**Who acts:** Prince, enchantress · **What happens:** be, see, arrive, begin, not take · **To what, where:** fair enchantress, eyes, door

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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 (Prince, enchantress), 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:pg7277:29:48
# text = On the third evening Prince Fickle was so impatient to see his fair enchantress again, that he arrived at the feast hours before it began, and never took his eyes from the door.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | evening | impatient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Prince's fair enchantress |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchantress=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arrive** | past | Prince |  |  |  | hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past | enchantress |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **take** | past | enchantress *not said here* | Prince's eyes |  | the door |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from door=Initial\_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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