--- title: The birds consented, and he said: “Take a thousand greetings from me… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The birds consented, and he said: “Take a thousand greetings from me to the wizard of Finland, and ask him how I may restore a maiden transformed into a flower to her own form.” Who acts: birds, prince, Finland. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/93/) [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/) / 93 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 93 The birds consented, and he said: “Take a thousand greetings from me to the wizard of Finland, and ask him how I may restore a maiden transformed into a flower to her own form.” **Who acts:** birds, prince, Finland · **What happens:** consent, say, take, ask, restore, transform · **To what, where:** thousand greetings, wizard, prince, maiden, own form, flower · **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 (birds, prince, Finland), 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:pg503:26:93 # text = The birds consented, and he said: “Take a thousand greetings from me to the wizard of Finland, and ask him how I may restore a maiden transformed into a flower to her own form.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 consented consent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 greetings greeting NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Finland Finland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 transformed transform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consent** | participle | the birds | | | | | | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | thousand greetings | the wizard of Finland | | | from prince | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme from i=Initial\_Location to wizard=Destination | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | prince | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **restore** *not said to happen, in a quote* | may | prince | a maiden | Finland's own form | a flower | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme to form=Recipient | | 6 | **transform** *in a quote* | participle | | a maiden *not said here* | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **form** *in a quote* | | Finland | | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/94/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)