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title: It seemed, however, as if a change had come over the young Queen aft… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed, however, as if a change had come over the young Queen after she had been restored to life, and as if all her love for her husband had faded from her heart. Who acts: It, change, love. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency tree and
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 37

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It seemed, however, as if a change had come over the young Queen after she had been restored to life, and as if all her love for her husband had faded from her heart.

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**Who acts:** It, change, love · **What happens:** seem, come, restore, fade, love · **To what, where:** change, life, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, change, love), 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:pg7277:46:37
# text = It seemed, however, as if a change had come over the young Queen after she had been restored to life, and as if all her love for her husband had faded from her heart.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	faded	fade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | a change |  |  |  |  | over the young Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over queen=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **restore** | past · perfect · passive |  | change | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to life=Recipient |
| 4 | **fade** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | change's love for change's husband |  |  | change's heart |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **love** |  | change |  |  |  |  | for change's husband | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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