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description: So the last Fairy, who had not yet given her gift, tried to mend matters by promising the Princess a long and happy life after the fatal time was over. Who acts: last Fairy, fatal time, Queen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, with its dependency tre
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 25

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So the last Fairy, who had not yet given her gift, tried to mend matters by promising the Princess a long and happy life after the fatal time was over.

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**Who acts:** last Fairy, fatal time, Queen · **What happens:** not give, try, mend, promise, be, gift · **To what, where:** last Fairy, matters, long life, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (last Fairy, fatal time, Queen), 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:pg540:3:25
# text = So the last Fairy, who had not yet given her gift, tried to mend matters by promising the Princess a long and happy life after the fatal time was over.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
27	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	over	over	ADV	RB	_	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the last Fairy |  |  | yet |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient gift=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | the last Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **mend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the last Fairy *not said here* | matters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | the last Fairy *not said here* | a long life | the Princess |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent princess=Goal life=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the fatal time |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gift** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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 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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