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title: This amazing occurrence plunged the whole court into the deepest aff… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This amazing occurrence plunged the whole court into the deepest affliction, and Prince Mirliflor, after giving way to the most violent grief at first, fell gradually into a state of such deep dejection that it was feared if nothing could rouse him he would certainly die. Who acts: amazing occurrenc
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 142

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This amazing occurrence plunged the whole court into the deepest affliction, and Prince Mirliflor, after giving way to the most violent grief at first, fell gradually into a state of such deep dejection that it was feared if nothing could rouse him he would certainly die.

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**Who acts:** amazing occurrence, Mirliflor, nothing · **What happens:** plunge, give, fall, fear, rouse, die · **To what, where:** whole court, deepest affliction, way, violent grief, state, occurrence

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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 (amazing occurrence, Mirliflor, nothing), 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:pg7277:8:142
# text = This amazing occurrence plunged the whole court into the deepest affliction, and Prince Mirliflor, after giving way to the most violent grief at first, fell gradually into a state of such deep dejection that it was feared if nothing could rouse him he would certainly die.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Mirliflor	Mirliflor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	dejection	dejection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
41	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	rouse	rouse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plunge** | past | this amazing occurrence | the whole court |  | the deepest affliction |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location court=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Mirliflor  Prince | way | the violent grief |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme to grief=Recipient at first=Asset |
| 3 | **fall** | past | this amazing occurrence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into a state of such deep dejection *result*; gradually *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into state=Result |
| 4 | **fear** | past · passive |  | occurrence |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **rouse** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | nothing | Mirliflor |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **die** | would | Mirliflor |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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