--- title: However, it was not to be expected such good fortune could last, and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: However, it was not to be expected such good fortune could last, and before very long the Queen had a lovely little daughter who was named Placida. Who acts: such good fortune, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/) / 4 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 4 However, it was not to be expected such good fortune could last, and before very long the Queen had a lovely little daughter who was named Placida. **Who acts:** such good fortune, Queen · **What happens:** not expect, last, have, name · **To what, where:** thing, lovely little daughter 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 (such good fortune, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:36:4 # text = However, it was not to be expected such good fortune could last, and before very long the Queen had a lovely little daughter who was named Placida. 1 However however ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 9 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 last last VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 very very ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 obl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ _ 29 Placida Placida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **expect** | past · passive | | thing | | | | however *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **last** | could | such good fortune | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | the Queen | a lovely little daughter | | | before long | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 4 | **name** | past · passive | | a lovely little daughter | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/5/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/36/)