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title: While Paridamie decided to display to admiring mortals a Princess so… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: While Paridamie decided to display to admiring mortals a Princess so charming that no one could see her without falling in love with her. Who acts: Paridamie, one. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 102

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While Paridamie decided to display to admiring mortals a Princess so charming that no one could see her without falling in love with her.

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**Who acts:** Paridamie, one · **What happens:** decide, display, admire, see, fall · **To what, where:** charming, admiring mortals, Paridamie, love

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paridamie, one), 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:pg7277:8:102
# text = While Paridamie decided to display to admiring mortals a Princess so charming that no one could see her without falling in love with her.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decide** | past | Paridamie |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **display** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Paridamie *not said here* | charming | admiring mortals  a Princess |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mortal=Recipient |
| 3 | **admire** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **see** | could | no one | Paridamie |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fall** | gerund | no one *not said here* |  |  | love |  | with Paridamie | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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