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title: In it sat the Fairy Paridamie, and by her side a Princess whose beau… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In it sat the Fairy Paridamie, and by her side a Princess whose beauty positively dazzled all who saw her. Who acts: trouble, side. 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 147

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In it sat the Fairy Paridamie, and by her side a Princess whose beauty positively dazzled all who saw her.

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**Who acts:** trouble, side · **What happens:** sit, dazzle, see · **To what, where:** Fairy Paridamie, Princess beauty, beauty

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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 (trouble, side), 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:pg7277:8:147
# text = In it sat the Fairy Paridamie, and by her side a Princess whose beauty positively dazzled all who saw her.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Paridamie	Paridamie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	positively	positively	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | trouble | the Fairy Paridamie |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paridamie=Theme |
| 2 | **dazzle** | participle · passive | Paridamie's side | Princess beauty |  |  |  | positively *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past |  | beauty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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