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title: So, as soon as they reached the place, she gave him back his sight,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So, as soon as they reached the place, she gave him back his sight, but without releasing him from his chains, and by her magic power she appeared before him as a young and beautiful fairy, and pretended to have come there quite by chance. Who acts: streets, Princess, King. A sentence of «The Blue F
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 64

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So, as soon as they reached the place, she gave him back his sight, but without releasing him from his chains, and by her magic power she appeared before him as a young and beautiful fairy, and pretended to have come there quite by chance.

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**Who acts:** streets, Princess, King · **What happens:** reach, give back, release, appear, pretend, come · **To what, where:** place, sight, King, chains

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (streets, Princess, King), 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:pg503:6:64
# text = So, as soon as they reached the place, she gave him back his sight, but without releasing him from his chains, and by her magic power she appeared before him as a young and beautiful fairy, and pretended to have come there quite by chance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	releasing	release	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
40	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
46	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	ccomp	_	_
47	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
48	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | streets *= street* | the place |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **give back** | past | Princess | King's sight | King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sight=Theme |
| 3 | **release** | gerund | streets *= street* *not said here* | King |  | King's chains |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source |
| 4 | **appear** | past | Princess |  |  |  | before King | by Princess's magic power; as a young fairy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by power=Location |
| 5 | **pretend** | past | streets *= street* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **come** | to-infinitive · perfect | streets *= street* *not said here* |  |  | there |  | by chance | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location |
| 7 | **sight** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «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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