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title: So what with one thing and another she was an immense time trotting… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So what with one thing and another she was an immense time trotting to and fro, and all the while she now and again bade the Prince have patience. Who acts: woman, immense time. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency t
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 34

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So what with one thing and another she was an immense time trotting to and fro, and all the while she now and again bade the Prince have patience.

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**Who acts:** woman, immense time · **What happens:** be, trot, fro, have · **To what, where:** immense time, patience

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, immense time), 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:pg7277:36:34
# text = So what with one thing and another she was an immense time trotting to and fro, and all the while she now and again bade the Prince have patience.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
13	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | woman | another immense time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trot** | gerund | another immense time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fro** | infinitive | another immense time *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | woman | patience |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient |

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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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