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title: Surcantine came in all haste to see what she could do for her darlin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Surcantine came in all haste to see what she could do for her darling, but he rejected with scorn all the portraits of lovely princesses which she offered him for his collection. Who acts: Surcantine, way, Mirliflor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 143

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Surcantine came in all haste to see what she could do for her darling, but he rejected with scorn all the portraits of lovely princesses which she offered him for his collection.

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**Who acts:** Surcantine, way, Mirliflor · **What happens:** come, see, do, reject, offer, portray · **To what, where:** haste, portraits, lovely princesses, Mirliflor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Surcantine, way, Mirliflor), 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:pg7277:8:143
# text = Surcantine came in all haste to see what she could do for her darling, but he rejected with scorn all the portraits of lovely princesses which she offered him for his collection.
1	Surcantine	Surcantine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	darling	darling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	rejected	reject	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | past | Surcantine |  |  | all haste |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Location |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Surcantine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | could | way |  |  |  |  | for way's darling | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **reject** | past | Mirliflor | all portraits of lovely princesses |  |  |  | with scorn | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme |
| 5 | **offer** | past | way | lovely princesses | Mirliflor |  |  | for Mirliflor's collection | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal which=Theme |
| 6 | **portray** |  |  | lovely princesses |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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