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title: “Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded w… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded with the king, and said: ‘It is clear that your daughter’s fortunes are bound up with his, for the fire has not hurt him. Who acts: Peris. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, with its de
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 89

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“Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded with the king, and said: ‘It is clear that your daughter’s fortunes are bound up with his, for the fire has not hurt him.

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**Who acts:** Peris · **What happens:** see, consume, intercede, say, be, bind up · **To what, where:** Gul, fortunes, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peris), 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:pg3282:5:89
# text = “Peris who had seen Gul consumed by her love for me now interceded with the king, and said: ‘It is clear that your daughter’s fortunes are bound up with his, for the fire has not hurt him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Peris	Peris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
6	Gul	Gul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	interceded	intercede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	expl	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	csubj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past · perfect | Peris | Gul |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gul=Stimulus |
| 2 | **consume** *in a quote* | participle | Peris *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by peris's love; for me | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **intercede** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  | now | with the king | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bind up** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | your daughter's fortunes |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **hurt** *in a quote* | present |  | king |  |  |  | for the fire | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 8 | **love** *in a quote* |  | peris |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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