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title: And oh!’ concluded the Princess, ‘how delightful it is once more to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And oh!’ concluded the Princess, ‘how delightful it is once more to be able to sit still in peace. Who acts: lion. 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 88

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And oh!’ concluded the Princess, ‘how delightful it is once more to be able to sit still in peace.

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**Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** conclude, be, sit · **To what, where:** Princess, peace

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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 (lion), 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:pg7277:38:88
# text = And oh!’ concluded the Princess, ‘how delightful it is once more to be able to sit still in peace.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	concluded	conclude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conclude** | past |  | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | lion |  |  |  |  | more, once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | to-infinitive | lion *not said here* |  |  | peace | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in peace=Location |

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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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