--- title: They all loved her dearly, but the fairy Tulip loved her most of all… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They all loved her dearly, but the fairy Tulip loved her most of all; and as the princess's fifteenth birthday drew near, the fairy began to tremble lest something terrible should happen--some accident which had not been foreseen. ' Who acts: fairies, fairy, fifteenth birthday, something. 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' **Who acts:** fairies, fairy, fifteenth birthday, something, accident · **What happens:** love, draw, begin, tremble, happen, not be · **To what, where:** dearly, most, accident 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 (fairies, fairy, fifteenth birthday, something), 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:pg3027:22:79 # text = They all loved her dearly, but the fairy Tulip loved her most of all; and as the princess's fifteenth birthday drew near, the fairy began to tremble lest something terrible should happen--some accident which had not been foreseen. ' 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 dearly dearly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Tulip Tulip PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 11 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 fifteenth fifteenth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 25 near near ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 tremble tremble VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 36 nsubj _ _ 34 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 35 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 39 det _ _ 39 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 41 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 42 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 43 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 44 cop _ _ 44 foreseen foreseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | fairies *= fairy* | princess's dearly | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus | | 2 | **love** | past | the fairy | princess's most of all | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus | | 3 | **draw** | past | the princess's fifteenth birthday | | | | | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **begin** | past | the fairy | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **tremble** | to-infinitive | the fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **happen** | should | something | some accident | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | some accident | | | | | foreseen *property* | tree rules | 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 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/78/) - next →: [sentence 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/80/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/22/)