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title: And she gave three strokes of her wand upon the Golden Branch, and i… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And she gave three strokes of her wand upon the Golden Branch, and immediately all the prisoners in the Enchanter’s castle found themselves free, and came with all speed to the wonderful garden, where one touch of the Golden Branch restored each one to his natural form, and they greeted one another 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 90

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And she gave three strokes of her wand upon the Golden Branch, and immediately all the prisoners in the Enchanter’s castle found themselves free, and came with all speed to the wonderful garden, where one touch of the Golden Branch restored each one to his natural form, and they greeted one another with many rejoicings.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, prisoners, one touch, touch · **What happens:** give, find, come, restore, greet, stroke · **To what, where:** three strokes, prisoners, wonderful garden, one, natural form, wand

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (Fairy, prisoners, one touch, touch), 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:pg540:36:90
# text = And she gave three strokes of her wand upon the Golden Branch, and immediately all the prisoners in the Enchanter’s castle found themselves free, and came with all speed to the wonderful garden, where one touch of the Golden Branch restored each one to his natural form, and they greeted one another with many rejoicings.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
45	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
46	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	det	_	_
47	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
56	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	obj	_	_
57	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	fixed	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Fairy | three strokes of Fairy's wand upon the Golden Branch |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | all prisoners in the Enchanter's castle | prisoners *= prisoner* |  |  |  | free *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the wonderful garden |  | with all speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **restore** | past | one touch of the Golden Branch | each one | touch's natural form |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to form=Recipient |
| 5 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | prisoners *= prisoner* | one |  |  |  | with many rejoicings | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 6 | **stroke** |  |  | Fairy's wand upon the Golden Branch |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **touch** |  |  | the Golden Branch |  |  |  |  | nom touch «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **form** |  | touch |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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