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title: The fairy Tulip, who, in spite of her anger, was very soft-hearted,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy Tulip, who, in spite of her anger, was very soft-hearted, was touched at their distress, and flew quickly to their help. Who acts: fairy Tulip, doe, Tulip. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 99

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The fairy Tulip, who, in spite of her anger, was very soft-hearted, was touched at their distress, and flew quickly to their help.

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**Who acts:** fairy Tulip, doe, Tulip · **What happens:** be, touch, fly, spite, anger, distress · **To what, where:** fairy Tulip, distress, anger

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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 Tulip, doe, Tulip), 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:pg3027:23:99
# text = The fairy Tulip, who, in spite of her anger, was very soft-hearted, was touched at their distress, and flew quickly to their help.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tulip	Tulip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	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	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fairy Tulip |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **touch** | past · passive |  | the fairy Tulip |  | Tulip's distress |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to Tulip's help *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to help=Result |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | doe's anger |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **anger** |  | doe |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **distress** |  | Tulip |  |  |  |  |  | nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **help** |  | Tulip |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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