--- title: Here she was received by the prettiest girls it was possible to find… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Here she was received by the prettiest girls it was possible to find, who had been carried there by the Yellow Dwarf, who hastened to wait upon her and showed her every possible attention. Who acts: prettiest girls, it, Yellow Dwarf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/37/) [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 Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/) / 37 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 37 Here she was received by the prettiest girls it was possible to find, who had been carried there by the Yellow Dwarf, who hastened to wait upon her and showed her every possible attention. **Who acts:** prettiest girls, it, Yellow Dwarf · **What happens:** receive, be, find, carry, hasten, wait · **To what, where:** Fairy, prettiest girls, possible attention This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest girls, it, Yellow Dwarf), 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:pg503:7:37 # text = Here she was received by the prettiest girls it was possible to find, who had been carried there by the Yellow Dwarf, who hastened to wait upon her and showed her every possible attention. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 prettiest pretty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 acl:relcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 Dwarf Dwarf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 35 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past · passive | the prettiest girls | Fairy | | here | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | it | the prettiest girls *not said here* | | | | possible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | past · perfect · passive | the Yellow Dwarf | | | there | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **hasten** | past | the Yellow Dwarf | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wait** | to-infinitive | the Yellow Dwarf *not said here* | | | | | upon Fairy | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location | | 7 | **show** | past | the Yellow Dwarf *not said here* | every possible attention | Fairy | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient attention=Topic | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/38/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/7/)