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title: Then Helena kissed him silently on the left cheek, and in one moment… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Helena kissed him silently on the left cheek, and in one moment Prince Fickle recognized his old love. Who acts: Helena, Prince. 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 51

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Then Helena kissed him silently on the left cheek, and in one moment Prince Fickle recognized his old love.

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**Who acts:** Helena, Prince · **What happens:** kiss, recognize, love · **To what, where:** name, left cheek, old love

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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 (Helena, Prince), 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:pg7277:29:51
# text = Then Helena kissed him silently on the left cheek, and in one moment Prince Fickle recognized his old love.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | Helena | name |  | the left cheek | then | silently *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **recognize** | past | Prince | Prince's old love |  |  | moment |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus |
| 3 | **love** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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