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title: In this journey she saw her chance, and it was she who, invisible, s… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this journey she saw her chance, and it was she who, invisible, sat by Cerisette, and put bad thoughts into the minds of both her and her mother. Who acts: fairy, chance. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 28

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In this journey she saw her chance, and it was she who, invisible, sat by Cerisette, and put bad thoughts into the minds of both her and her mother.

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**Who acts:** fairy, chance · **What happens:** see, be, sit, put, chance, mind · **To what, where:** chance, journey, bad thoughts, minds, fairy

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy, chance), 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:pg3027:23:28
# text = In this journey she saw her chance, and it was she who, invisible, sat by Cerisette, and put bad thoughts into the minds of both her and her mother.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cerisette	Cerisette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc:preconj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | fairy | fairy's chance |  | this journey |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | chance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | chance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | past | fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Cerisette | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cerisette=Location |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | fairy *not said here* | bad thoughts |  | the minds of fairy |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thought=Goal |
| 6 | **chance** |  | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **mind** |  |  | fairy |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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 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.

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