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title: I have watched over the Princess carefully all these years and saw t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have watched over the Princess carefully all these years and saw that no stranger came near her, but all my magic power lay in my beard, and now that you have taken it away I am helpless, and can no longer hold the beautiful Princess in her enchanted sleep, but am forced to reveal my treasured sec
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 61

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I have watched over the Princess carefully all these years and saw that no stranger came near her, but all my magic power lay in my beard, and now that you have taken it away I am helpless, and can no longer hold the beautiful Princess in her enchanted sleep, but am forced to reveal my treasured secret to you.

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**Who acts:** I, stranger, magic power, you, child · **What happens:** watch, see, come, lie, take away, be · **To what, where:** beard, power, beautiful Princess, enchanted sleep, treasured secret, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stranger, magic power, 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:pg7277:55:61
# text = I have watched over the Princess carefully all these years and saw that no stranger came near her, but all my magic power lay in my beard, and now that you have taken it away I am helpless, and can no longer hold the beautiful Princess in her enchanted sleep, but am forced to reveal my treasured secret to you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
40	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
44	no	no	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	_
46	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	amod	_	_
53	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
61	treasured	treasure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	amod	_	_
62	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | year | over the Princess; carefully *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over princess=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | no stranger |  |  |  |  | near child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near she=Location |
| 4 | **lie** | past | my magic power |  |  | my beard |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beard=Location |
| 5 | **take away** | present · perfect | you | power |  |  | now | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | helpless *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hold** | can | I *not said here* | the beautiful Princess |  | child's enchanted sleep |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in sleep=Location |
| 8 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **force** | present · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: clause=Topic |
| 10 | **reveal** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my treasured secret | you |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to you=Recipient |
| 11 | **treasure** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 12 | **sleep** |  | child |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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