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title: I know quite well how delightful it is to be thoroughly idle, for wh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I know quite well how delightful it is to be thoroughly idle, for when my husband and I were King and Queen we did nothing at all from morning to night, and I sincerely hope that it will not be long before those happy days will come again for us. Who acts: I, child, husband. A sentence of «The Green
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 25

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I know quite well how delightful it is to be thoroughly idle, for when my husband and I were King and Queen we did nothing at all from morning to night, and I sincerely hope that it will not be long before those happy days will come again for us.

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**Who acts:** I, child, husband · **What happens:** know, be, hope, not be, come · **To what, where:** King

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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 (I, child, husband), 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:pg7277:38:25
# text = I know quite well how delightful it is to be thoroughly idle, for when my husband and I were King and Queen we did nothing at all from morning to night, and I sincerely hope that it will not be long before those happy days will come again for us.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	parataxis	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl:relcl	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
44	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
45	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
46	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	ccomp	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | child |  |  |  |  | idle, thoroughly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | my husband | King and Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hope** | present | I |  |  |  |  | sincerely *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | future | child |  |  |  | again | for us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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