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title: ‘Patience, patience,’ said the old woman looking at him with her slo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Patience, patience,’ said the old woman looking at him with her slow gentle smile, ‘I can’t be hurried. Who acts: Patience, old woman, woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 41

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‘Patience, patience,’ said the old woman looking at him with her slow gentle smile, ‘I can’t be hurried.

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**Who acts:** Patience, old woman, woman · **What happens:** say, look, not hurry, smile · **To what, where:** I · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Patience, old woman, woman), 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:pg7277:36:41
# text = ‘Patience, patience,’ said the old woman looking at him with her slow gentle smile, ‘I can’t be hurried.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	ccomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Patience and patience |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the old woman |  |  |  |  | at patience; with woman's slow gentle smile | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hurry** | can · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 4 | **smile** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom smile «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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