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title: The Fairy godmother, who took the deepest interest in all the Queen’… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fairy godmother, who took the deepest interest in all the Queen’s concerns, and who was much pleased with the little Prince, endowed him with the power of pleasing everybody from his cradle, as well as with a wonderful ease in learning everything which could help to make him a perfectly accompli
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 90

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The Fairy godmother, who took the deepest interest in all the Queen’s concerns, and who was much pleased with the little Prince, endowed him with the power of pleasing everybody from his cradle, as well as with a wonderful ease in learning everything which could help to make him a perfectly accomplished Prince.

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**Who acts:** Fairy godmother, power, wonderful ease, Queen · **What happens:** take, be, endow, please, learn, help · **To what, where:** deepest interest, concerns, godmother, everybody, cradle, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (Fairy godmother, power, wonderful ease, 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:pg640:19:90
# text = The Fairy godmother, who took the deepest interest in all the Queen’s concerns, and who was much pleased with the little Prince, endowed him with the power of pleasing everybody from his cradle, as well as with a wonderful ease in learning everything which could help to make him a perfectly accomplished Prince.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	concerns	concern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	endowed	endow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	pleasing	please	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
34	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	33	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	45	cc	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	_
46	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	acl	_	_
48	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	47	obj	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	amod	_	_
58	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Fairy godmother | the deepest interest |  | the Queen's concerns |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in concern=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with the little Prince; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **endow** | past | the Fairy godmother *not said here* |  | godmother |  |  | with the power | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with power=Theme |
| 4 | **please** | gerund | the power *not said here* | everybody |  | godmother's cradle |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer |
| 5 | **learn** | gerund | a wonderful ease *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic |
| 6 | **help** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | godmother |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 8 | **accomplish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | perfectly *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **concern** |  | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom concern «cognition 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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