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title: Now the fairy Girouette, who had brought up Souci, had an old friend… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the fairy Girouette, who had brought up Souci, had an old friend called Grimace, the protectress of Prince Fluet. Who acts: fairy. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 67

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Now the fairy Girouette, who had brought up Souci, had an old friend called Grimace, the protectress of Prince Fluet.

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**Who acts:** fairy · **What happens:** bring up, have, call · **To what, where:** fairy, old friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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:pg5615:30:67
# text = Now the fairy Girouette, who had brought up Souci, had an old friend called Grimace, the protectress of Prince Fluet.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	Girouette	Girouette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	Souci	Souci	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	Grimace	Grimace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	protectress	protectress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Fluet	Fluet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the fairy | a old friend |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle |  | a old friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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