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title: For could he not whisper soft speeches to Sweet, and laugh with Joy,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For could he not whisper soft speeches to Sweet, and laugh with Joy, while he looked at Beauty? Who acts: Prince, you. 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 133

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For could he not whisper soft speeches to Sweet, and laugh with Joy, while he looked at Beauty?

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**Who acts:** Prince, you · **What happens:** not whisper, laugh, look · **To what, where:** soft speeches, Sweet

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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 (Prince, 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:pg7277:8:133
# text = For could he not whisper soft speeches to Sweet, and laugh with Joy, while he looked at Beauty?
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	whisper	whisper	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **whisper** *speech: assert* | could | Prince | soft speeches | Sweet |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speech=Topic to sweet=Recipient |
| 2 | **laugh** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Joy | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | at Beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at beauty=Theme |

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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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