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title: The Princess recognised it as soon as her eyes fell upon it, and aft… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess recognised it as soon as her eyes fell upon it, and after that she could no longer doubt that he had indeed married Turritella. Who acts: Princess, eyes. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 38

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The Princess recognised it as soon as her eyes fell upon it, and after that she could no longer doubt that he had indeed married Turritella.

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**Who acts:** Princess, eyes · **What happens:** recognise, fall, marry · **To what, where:** ring, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, eyes), 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:pg7277:3:38
# text = The Princess recognised it as soon as her eyes fell upon it, and after that she could no longer doubt that he had indeed married Turritella.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
21	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
27	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | the Princess | ring |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Princess's eyes |  |  | ring |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
| 3 | **marry** | could · perfect · passive |  | Princess |  |  | after that | indeed, long *property* | tree rules |

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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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