--- title: So they caused Placida to seem to have a violent fever, and Vivien t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So they caused Placida to seem to have a violent fever, and Vivien to languish and grow dull, and made each of them very uneasy about the other, and then, finding a moment when they were apart, the Fairy Mirlifiche suddenly appeared to Placida, and said-- Who acts: Fairies, Placida, Vivien, Fairy Mi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/97/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/) / 97 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 97 So they caused Placida to seem to have a violent fever, and Vivien to languish and grow dull, and made each of them very uneasy about the other, and then, finding a moment when they were apart, the Fairy Mirlifiche suddenly appeared to Placida, and said-- **Who acts:** Fairies, Placida, Vivien, Fairy Mirlifiche · **What happens:** cause, seem, have, languish, grow, make · **To what, where:** Placida, violent fever, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Fairies, Placida, Vivien, Fairy Mirlifiche), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:38:97 # text = So they caused Placida to seem to have a violent fever, and Vivien to languish and grow dull, and made each of them very uneasy about the other, and then, finding a moment when they were apart, the Fairy Mirlifiche suddenly appeared to Placida, and said-- 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Placida Placida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 seem seem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 Vivien Vivien PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 languish languish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 19 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 very very ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 uneasy uneasy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 apart apart ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 Mirlifiche Mirlifiche PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 parataxis _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 Placida Placida PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 -- -- PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | past | Fairies *= fairy* | Placida | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | to-infinitive | Placida *not said here* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 3 | **have** | to-infinitive | Placida *not said here* | a violent fever | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient | | 4 | **languish** | to-infinitive | Vivien | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | infinitive | Vivien *not said here* | | | | | dull *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | Fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | each | | | | uneasy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset each=Product | | 7 | **find** | gerund | Fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | | | | then; moment | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is** | past | Fairies *= fairy* | | | | | apart *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **appear** | past | the Fairy Mirlifiche | | Placida | | | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/96/) - next →: [Prince Vivien and the Prince…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/1/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/)