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title: Charming was only too glad to give her the flask, and she flitted in… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Charming was only too glad to give her the flask, and she flitted into the cavern quite unnoticed by the dragon, and after some time returned with the flask, filled to the very brim with sparkling water. Who acts: Charming. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Gold
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 167

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Charming was only too glad to give her the flask, and she flitted into the cavern quite unnoticed by the dragon, and after some time returned with the flask, filled to the very brim with sparkling water.

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**Who acts:** Charming · **What happens:** be, give, flit, unnotic, return, fill · **To what, where:** flask, Charming, cavern, time

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charming), 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:pg503:28:167
# text = Charming was only too glad to give her the flask, and she flitted into the cavern quite unnoticed by the dragon, and after some time returned with the flask, filled to the very brim with sparkling water.
1	Charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flitted	flit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	unnoticed	unnotic	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
28	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Charming |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | Charming *not said here* | the flask | Charming |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient flask=Theme |
| 3 | **flit** | past | Charming |  |  | the cavern | time |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cavern=Destination |
| 4 | **unnotic** | participle |  | the cavern *not said here* |  |  |  | by the dragon | tree rules |
| 5 | **return** | participle |  | some time *not said here* |  |  |  | with the flask | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **fill** | participle |  | some time *not said here* |  |  |  | to the brim with sparkling water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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