--- title: As she spoke the gates swung back and six fairies approached, each b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As she spoke the gates swung back and six fairies approached, each bearing in her hand a flower made of precious stones, but so like a real one that it was only by touching you could tell the difference. Who acts: queen, gates, six fairies, bearing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/) / 46 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 46 As she spoke the gates swung back and six fairies approached, each bearing in her hand a flower made of precious stones, but so like a real one that it was only by touching you could tell the difference. **Who acts:** queen, gates, six fairies, bearing, you · **What happens:** speak, swing back, approach, make, touch, tell · **To what, where:** bearing, hand, flower, real one, difference · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, gates, six fairies, bearing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:22:46 # text = As she spoke the gates swung back and six fairies approached, each bearing in her hand a flower made of precious stones, but so like a real one that it was only by touching you could tell the difference. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 approached approach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 bearing bearing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 by by SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 parataxis _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | queen | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **swing back** | past | the gates | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **approach** | past | six fairies | each bearing | | queen's hand and a flower | | | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Theme | | 4 | **make** | participle | | a flower *not said here* | | | | of precious stones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **touch** | past · progressive | bearing | a real one *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | you | the difference | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent difference=Recipient | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/47/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)