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title: In vain did the gazelle represent to him that she was enjoying herse… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain did the gazelle represent to him that she was enjoying herself very much, and that this was the easiest mode of conveyance she had ever discovered. Who acts: gazelle, water, this. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, with its de
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 60

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In vain did the gazelle represent to him that she was enjoying herself very much, and that this was the easiest mode of conveyance she had ever discovered.

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**Who acts:** gazelle, water, this · **What happens:** represent, enjoy, be, discover · **To what, where:** advice, water, easiest mode, conveyance

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (gazelle, water, this), 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:pg7277:37:60
# text = In vain did the gazelle represent to him that she was enjoying herself very much, and that this was the easiest mode of conveyance she had ever discovered.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | past · do-support | the gazelle |  | advice |  |  | in vain | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in vain=Attribute |
| 2 | **enjoy** | past · progressive | water | water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | past | this | the easiest mode |  |  |  | of conveyance | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** | past · perfect | water | conveyance *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conveyance=Topic |

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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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