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title: Accordingly, she collected nine different kinds of enchanters’ night… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, she collected nine different kinds of enchanters’ nightshade, added some salt, which she first bewitched, and, doing all up in a cloth into the shape of a fluffy ball, sent it after them on the wings of the wind, saying: Who acts: sun. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 46

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Accordingly, she collected nine different kinds of enchanters’ nightshade, added some salt, which she first bewitched, and, doing all up in a cloth into the shape of a fluffy ball, sent it after them on the wings of the wind, saying:

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** collect, add, bewitch, do, send, say · **To what, where:** nine different kinds, salt, cloth, wings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sun), 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:pg503:26:46
# text = Accordingly, she collected nine different kinds of enchanters’ nightshade, added some salt, which she first bewitched, and, doing all up in a cloth into the shape of a fluffy ball, sent it after them on the wings of the wind, saying:
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	enchanters	enchanter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	up	up	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
38	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past | sun | nine different kinds of enchanters's nightshade |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | sun *not said here* | some salt |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient |
| 3 | **bewitch** | past | sun | some salt |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer |
| 4 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  | a cloth |  | into the shape of a fluffy ball | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **send** | past | sun *not said here* | salt |  | the wings of the wind | after enchanters *= enchanter* |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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