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title: So she made up her mind that she would go and consult the Fairy of t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she made up her mind that she would go and consult the Fairy of the Desert about it, especially as she had often heard how wise she was, and she thought that at the same time she might ask her advice as to whether it would be as well to be married, or not. Who acts: Bellissima. A sentence of «The
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 65

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So she made up her mind that she would go and consult the Fairy of the Desert about it, especially as she had often heard how wise she was, and she thought that at the same time she might ask her advice as to whether it would be as well to be married, or not.

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**Who acts:** Bellissima · **What happens:** make up, go, consult, hear, be, think · **To what, where:** mind, Fairy, that, advice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima), 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:pg503:5:65
# text = So she made up her mind that she would go and consult the Fairy of the Desert about it, especially as she had often heard how wise she was, and she thought that at the same time she might ask her advice as to whether it would be as well to be married, or not.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
28	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obj	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
51	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	55	cc	_	_
52	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	fixed	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make up** | past | Bellissima | Bellissima's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 2 | **go** | would | Bellissima |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **consult** | infinitive | Bellissima *not said here* | the Fairy of the Desert about Desert |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | Bellissima |  |  |  |  | especially, often, wise *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | past | Bellissima |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Bellissima | that |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | might | Bellissima | Bellissima's advice |  |  | time |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **marry** *not said to happen* | would · passive |  | advice |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 9 | **mind** |  | Bellissima |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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