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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 63

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His despair at being so late bewildered him so entirely that he appeared in his natural form and attempted to sprinkle some black liquid over the bride and bridegroom, which was intended to kill them, but the Fairy stretched out her wand and the liquid dropped on the Magician himself.

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**Who acts:** despair, King, Fairy · **What happens:** be, bewilder, appear, attempt, sprinkle, intend · **To what, where:** King, natural form, black liquid, bride, wand, liquid

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (despair, King, 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:pg640:20:63
# text = His despair at being so late bewildered him so entirely that he appeared in his natural form and attempted to sprinkle some black liquid over the bride and bridegroom, which was intended to kill them, but the Fairy stretched out her wand and the liquid dropped on the Magician himself.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	_
6	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
42	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	liquid	liquid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
48	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	Magician	Magician	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
52	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bewilder** | past | King's despair | King |  |  |  | entirely, late *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 3 | **appear** | past | King |  |  | King's natural form |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 4 | **attempt** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sprinkle** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | some black liquid |  |  |  | over the bride and bridegroom | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme over bride=Destination |
| 6 | **intend** | past · passive |  | the bride and bridegroom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | bride |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **stretch out** | past | the Fairy | Fairy's wand |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wand=Patient |
| 9 | **drop** | participle |  | the liquid *not said here* |  | the Magician |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on magician=Trajectory |
| 10 | **despair** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **form** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | 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 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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