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title: ‘A Fairy called Cancaline is the cause of my being here,’ answered s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘A Fairy called Cancaline is the cause of my being here,’ answered she, ‘for while I lived with her I got nothing but blows and harsh words, until at last I could bear it no longer, and ran away from her without knowing where I was going, and as I came through a wood the wicked Prince met me, and of
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 124

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‘A Fairy called Cancaline is the cause of my being here,’ answered she, ‘for while I lived with her I got nothing but blows and harsh words, until at last I could bear it no longer, and ran away from her without knowing where I was going, and as I came through a wood the wicked Prince met me, and offered to give me charge of the poultry-yard.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, cause, I, wicked Prince · **What happens:** call, be, answer, live, get, bear · **To what, where:** Fairy, cause, nothing, wood, me, charge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, cause, I, wicked Prince), 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:pg540:22:124
# text = ‘A Fairy called Cancaline is the cause of my being here,’ answered she, ‘for while I lived with her I got nothing but blows and harsh words, until at last I could bear it no longer, and ran away from her without knowing where I was going, and as I came through a wood the wicked Prince met me, and offered to give me charge of the poultry-yard.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	Cancaline	Cancaline	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	until	until	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	no	no	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
46	away	away	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
49	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
50	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
51	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	54	advmod	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
58	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
60	through	through	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
66	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	acl:relcl	_	_
67	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	66	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	59	conj	_	_
71	to	to	PART	TO	_	72	mark	_	_
72	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	xcomp	_	_
73	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	72	iobj	_	_
74	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obj	_	_
75	of	of	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
77	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	77	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle |  | a Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a Fairy | the cause |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the cause |  | fairy |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 5 | **live** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **get** | past | I | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 7 | **bear** | could | I | cause |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 8 | **run away** | past | the cause *not said here* | fairy |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Agent |
| 9 | **know** | gerund | the cause *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **go** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 11 | **come** | past | I |  |  | a wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial\_Location |
| 12 | **meet** | past | the wicked Prince | me |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
| 13 | **offer** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 14 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | charge of the poultry yard | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient charge=Theme |
| 15 | **charge** |  |  | the poultry yard |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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