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title: And with a wave of her wand she turned the poor little cottage into… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And with a wave of her wand she turned the poor little cottage into a splendid palace, full of treasures; only the two stools and the straw bed remained just as they were, to remind him of his former poverty. Who acts: madam, two stools, stools. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fe
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 131

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And with a wave of her wand she turned the poor little cottage into a splendid palace, full of treasures; only the two stools and the straw bed remained just as they were, to remind him of his former poverty.

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**Who acts:** madam, two stools, stools · **What happens:** turn, remain, remind, wave · **To what, where:** poor little cottage, splendid palace, Bruno, wand

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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 (madam, two stools, stools), 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:pg503:22:131
# text = And with a wave of her wand she turned the poor little cottage into a splendid palace, full of treasures; only the two stools and the straw bed remained just as they were, to remind him of his former poverty.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	stools	stool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	poverty	poverty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | madam | the poor little cottage |  | a splendid palace |  | with a wave of madam's wand | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cottage=Theme into palace=Trajectory |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the two stools and the straw bed |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remind** *speech: other* | past | stools *= stool* |  | Bruno |  |  | of Bruno's former poverty | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of poverty=Topic |
| 4 | **wave** |  |  | madam's wand |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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 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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