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title: In one moment they all fell hopelessly in love with her, and longed… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In one moment they all fell hopelessly in love with her, and longed ardently to have the girl for their wife; but hardly had they with one breath expressed their desire than, mad with jealousy, they drew their swords and all three set upon each other. Who acts: remorse, one breath, three. A sentence
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 61

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In one moment they all fell hopelessly in love with her, and longed ardently to have the girl for their wife; but hardly had they with one breath expressed their desire than, mad with jealousy, they drew their swords and all three set upon each other.

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**Who acts:** remorse, one breath, three · **What happens:** fall, long, have, express, draw, set · **To what, where:** love, girl, remorse, desire, swords, each

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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 (remorse, one breath, three), 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:pg7277:29:61
# text = In one moment they all fell hopelessly in love with her, and longed ardently to have the girl for their wife; but hardly had they with one breath expressed their desire than, mad with jealousy, they drew their swords and all three set upon each other.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hopelessly	hopelessly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	ardently	ardently	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	appos	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nsubj	_	_
47	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	47	obl	_	_
50	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | remorse |  |  | love | moment | with Parsley; hopelessly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 2 | **long** | past | remorse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ardently *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | remorse *not said here* | the girl |  |  |  | for remorse's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | remorse *not said here* | remorse |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **express** | past | one breath | remorse's desire |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 6 | **draw** | past | remorse | remorse's swords |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 7 | **set** | past | all three |  |  | each |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon each=Destination |
| 8 | **desire** |  | remorse |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «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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