--- title: By great good fortune the raven had found a wind wizard’s son in the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By great good fortune the raven had found a wind wizard’s son in the palace garden, who understood the speech of birds, and to him he had entrusted the message. Who acts: great good fortune, palace garden. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/) / 33 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 33 By great good fortune the raven had found a wind wizard’s son in the palace garden, who understood the speech of birds, and to him he had entrusted the message. **Who acts:** great good fortune, palace garden · **What happens:** find, understand, entrust, speak · **To what, where:** raven, palace garden, speech, heart, birds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great good fortune, palace garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:26:33 # text = By great good fortune the raven had found a wind wizard’s son in the palace garden, who understood the speech of birds, and to him he had entrusted the message. 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 entrusted entrust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past · perfect · passive | great good fortune | the raven | | the palace garden | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme son=Attribute | | 2 | **understand** | past | the palace garden | the speech of birds | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus | | 3 | **entrust** | past · perfect · passive | | heart | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **speak** | | | birds | | | | | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/34/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)