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title: The Princess was very happy when she heard how faithful her lover wa… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Princess was very happy when she heard how faithful her lover was, and would never have tired of hearing his loving speeches and explanations, but too soon the sun rose, and they had to part lest the Blue Bird should be discovered. Who acts: Princess, lover, sun, speeches. A sentence of «The Gre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 65

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The Princess was very happy when she heard how faithful her lover was, and would never have tired of hearing his loving speeches and explanations, but too soon the sun rose, and they had to part lest the Blue Bird should be discovered.

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**Who acts:** Princess, lover, sun, speeches, part, light · **What happens:** be, hear, not have, rise, have, discover · **To what, where:** loving speeches, part, Blue Bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, lover, sun, speeches), 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:pg7277:3:65
# text = The Princess was very happy when she heard how faithful her lover was, and would never have tired of hearing his loving speeches and explanations, but too soon the sun rose, and they had to part lest the Blue Bird should be discovered.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	explanations	explanation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux:pass	_	_
46	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | the Princess |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | Princess's lover |  |  |  |  | faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **have** | would | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hear** | gerund | Princess *not said here* | light's loving speeches and explanations |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
| 6 | **rise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **have** | past | speeches *= speech* | part |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 8 | **discover** | should · passive | part *not said here* | the Blue Bird |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 9 | **speak** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication 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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