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title: And her wish was granted, for not long after a little daughter was b… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And her wish was granted, for not long after a little daughter was born to her, with a skin as white as snow, lips and cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. Who acts: Snow. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 105

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And her wish was granted, for not long after a little daughter was born to her, with a skin as white as snow, lips and cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.

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**Who acts:** Snow · **What happens:** grant, bear, wish · **To what, where:** wish, little daughter, Snow

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snow), 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:pg540:47:105
# text = And her wish was granted, for not long after a little daughter was born to her, with a skin as white as snow, lips and cheeks as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	appos	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past · passive |  | Snow's wish |  |  |  | hair *obl*; long *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past · passive |  | a little daughter | Snow |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **wish** |  | Snow |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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