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title: But very soon it was evident that the Beauty had the best of it, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But very soon it was evident that the Beauty had the best of it, and the Dwarf turned her bats’ heads and flickered away in great confusion, while the Fairy came down to where the Princess stood, and said, smiling, ‘You see Princess, I have completely routed that malicious old Carabosse. Who acts: F
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 3, sentence 16

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But very soon it was evident that the Beauty had the best of it, and the Dwarf turned her bats’ heads and flickered away in great confusion, while the Fairy came down to where the Princess stood, and said, smiling, ‘You see Princess, I have completely routed that malicious old Carabosse.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Beauty, Dwarf, Princess, You, I · **What happens:** be, have, turn, flicker away, come down, stand · **To what, where:** best, heads, great confusion, Princess, malicious old Carabosse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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, Beauty, Dwarf, Princess), 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:pg540:5:16
# text = But very soon it was evident that the Beauty had the best of it, and the Dwarf turned her bats’ heads and flickered away in great confusion, while the Fairy came down to where the Princess stood, and said, smiling, ‘You see Princess, I have completely routed that malicious old Carabosse.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	flickered	flicker	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
50	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	routed	rout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	malicious	malicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
58	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | evident, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Beauty | the best |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the Dwarf | Dwarf's bats's heads |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **flicker away** | past | the Dwarf *not said here* |  |  | great confusion |  | away *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in confusion=Location |
| 5 | **come down** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | past | the Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **smile** | gerund | the Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **see** | present | You | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 10 | **rout** | present · perfect | I | malicious old Carabosse |  |  |  | completely *property* | tree rules |

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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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