--- title: She built herself a magnificent palace, to which she transported her… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She built herself a magnificent palace, to which she transported her books and fairy secrets, and where she enjoyed the sight of the perfect happiness she had helped to bestow on the entire royal family. Who acts: Fairy, perfect happiness. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Si --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/) / 69 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 69 She built herself a magnificent palace, to which she transported her books and fairy secrets, and where she enjoyed the sight of the perfect happiness she had helped to bestow on the entire royal family. **Who acts:** Fairy, perfect happiness · **What happens:** build, transport, enjoy, help, bestow, sight · **To what, where:** Fairy, books, sight, perfect happiness, entire royal family 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 (Fairy, perfect happiness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:20:69 # text = She built herself a magnificent palace, to which she transported her books and fairy secrets, and where she enjoyed the sight of the perfect happiness she had helped to bestow on the entire royal family. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 transported transport VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 helped help VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 bestow bestow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **build** | past | Fairy | Fairy | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary palace=Product | | 2 | **transport** | past | Fairy | Fairy's books and fairy secrets | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme to which=Destination | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | Fairy | the sight of the perfect happiness | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | | 4 | **help** | past · perfect | Fairy | the perfect happiness *not said here* | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent happiness=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **bestow** | to-infinitive | the perfect happiness *not said here* | | | the entire royal family | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sight** | | | the perfect happiness | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/70/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/20/)