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title: Whereupon a fairy with whom I had quarrelled changed him into a pink… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Whereupon a fairy with whom I had quarrelled changed him into a pink, and I could do nothing to prevent it. Who acts: I, fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 107

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Whereupon a fairy with whom I had quarrelled changed him into a pink, and I could do nothing to prevent it.

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**Who acts:** I, fairy · **What happens:** quarrell, change, do, prevent · **To what, where:** way, pink, nothing, task

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fairy), 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:pg503:22:107
# text = Whereupon a fairy with whom I had quarrelled changed him into a pink, and I could do nothing to prevent it.
1	Whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quarrell** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **change** | past | a fairy | way |  |  |  | into a pink *result*; whereupon *property* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into pink=Result |
| 3 | **do** | could | I | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | task |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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