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title: ‘Oh! you are joking, cousin,’ interrupted Prince Vivien; ‘you mean a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh! you are joking, cousin,’ interrupted Prince Vivien; ‘you mean as slowly as possible. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 65

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‘Oh! you are joking, cousin,’ interrupted Prince Vivien; ‘you mean as slowly as possible.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** joke, interrupt, mean · **To what, where:** cousin, Vivien

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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 (you), 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:pg7277:38:65
# text = ‘Oh! you are joking, cousin,’ interrupted Prince Vivien; ‘you mean as slowly as possible.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	joking	joke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Vivien	Vivien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **joke** *speech: other* | present · progressive | you | cousin |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **interrupt** | past |  | Vivien  Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | you |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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