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title: To my great joy, they not only permitted this, but actually, when th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To my great joy, they not only permitted this, but actually, when they had their own meals, the Queen brought my portion up to me. Who acts: King, Queen, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 22

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To my great joy, they not only permitted this, but actually, when they had their own meals, the Queen brought my portion up to me.

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**Who acts:** King, Queen, my · **What happens:** not permit, have, bring up, joy · **To what, where:** King, own meals, portion, me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Queen, my), 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:pg7277:38:22
# text = To my great joy, they not only permitted this, but actually, when they had their own meals, the Queen brought my portion up to me.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
13	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **permit** | participle · passive |  | King |  |  |  | to my great joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme this=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | King | King's own meals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 3 | **bring up** | past | the Queen | my portion | me |  |  | actually *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent portion=Patient |
| 4 | **joy** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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