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title: Now Paridamie had for a long time been very friendly with King Bardo… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Paridamie had for a long time been very friendly with King Bardondon, who was a most accomplished Prince, and whose court was the model of what a court should be. Who acts: Paridamie, King, court. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 104

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Now Paridamie had for a long time been very friendly with King Bardondon, who was a most accomplished Prince, and whose court was the model of what a court should be.

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**Who acts:** Paridamie, King, court · **What happens:** have, be, accomplish · **To what, where:** accomplished Prince, model

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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, King, court), 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:pg7277:8:104
# text = Now Paridamie had for a long time been very friendly with King Bardondon, who was a most accomplished Prince, and whose court was the model of what a court should be.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	Bardondon	Bardondon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Paridamie |  |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | participle | Paridamie *not said here* |  |  |  | time | with King and a accomplished Prince; friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accomplish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | King and a accomplished Prince | a accomplished Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the model's court | the model |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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