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title: These grave dancing fairies were very unlike the Grey Women, and the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These grave dancing fairies were very unlike the Grey Women, and they were glad to see the boy, and treated him kindly. Who acts: dancing fairies, Fairies. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 75

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These grave dancing fairies were very unlike the Grey Women, and they were glad to see the boy, and treated him kindly.

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**Who acts:** dancing fairies, Fairies · **What happens:** be, see, treat · **To what, where:** boy

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dancing fairies, Fairies), 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:pg503:27:75
# text = These grave dancing fairies were very unlike the Grey Women, and they were glad to see the boy, and treated him kindly.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
2	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this dancing fairies |  |  |  |  | unlike the Grey Women | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus |
| 4 | **treat** | past | Fairies *= fairy* *not said here* |  | boy |  |  | kindly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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