--- title: The two women, who were fairies as well as their mistress, after the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The two women, who were fairies as well as their mistress, after they had told the magician how glad they were that she was cured so soon, walked before her, and conducted her through several apartments, all more noble than that wherein she lay, into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/7/) [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 Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/) / 7 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 7 The two women, who were fairies as well as their mistress, after they had told the magician how glad they were that she was cured so soon, walked before her, and conducted her through several apartments, all more noble than that wherein she lay, into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently furnished of all the palace. **Who acts:** two women, magician · **What happens:** be, tell, cure, walk, conduct, lie · **To what, where:** fairies, women, magician, several apartments, large hall · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two women, magician), 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:pg503:52:7 # text = The two women, who were fairies as well as their mistress, after they had told the magician how glad they were that she was cured so soon, walked before her, and conducted her through several apartments, all more noble than that wherein she lay, into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently furnished of all the palace. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 7 advmod _ _ 9 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 fixed _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 iobj _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 21 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 cured cure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 31 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 before before ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 conducted conduct VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 apartments apartment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ _ 44 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 parataxis _ _ 45 than than ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 obl _ _ 47 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 49 advmod _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 into into ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 53 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 57 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 58 advmod _ _ 58 richly richly ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 magnificently magnificently ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 61 furnished furnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 acl:relcl _ _ 62 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 63 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 65 det:predet _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the two women and fairies | fairies | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | the two women and fairies *not said here* | women *= woman* | the magician | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient magician=Topic | | 3 | **cure** | past · passive | | women *= woman* | | | | soon *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | | 4 | **walk** | past | the two women and fairies | | | | before magician | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Trajectory | | 5 | **conduct** | past | the two women and fairies *not said here* | magician | | several apartments | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme through apartment=Destination | | 6 | **lie** | past | magician | a large hall | | | | wherein *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hall=Theme | | 7 | **furnish** | participle | | a large hall *not said here* | | | | of all palace; magnificently, richly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/8/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/)