--- title: The Fairy replied that, much as she desired to be agreeable to the Q… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Fairy replied that, much as she desired to be agreeable to the Queen in every way, it was impossible for her to attempt anything against the young Prince, who was under the protection of some greater Power than her own. Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/75/) [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/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/) / 75 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 75 The Fairy replied that, much as she desired to be agreeable to the Queen in every way, it was impossible for her to attempt anything against the young Prince, who was under the protection of some greater Power than her own. **Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** reply, desire, be, attempt · **To what, where:** that, way, anything, protection This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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), 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:pg640:22:75 # text = The Fairy replied that, much as she desired to be agreeable to the Queen in every way, it was impossible for her to attempt anything against the young Prince, who was under the protection of some greater Power than her own. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 much much ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 desired desire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 cop _ _ 12 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 expl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 attempt attempt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 csubj _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 under under ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 40 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 amod _ _ 41 Power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy | that | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 2 | **desire** | past | Fairy | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | | | every way | | to the Queen; agreeable *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | Fairy *not said here* | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | Fairy | anything | | | | against the young Prince; than Fairy's own | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | the protection | | of some greater Power | tree rules | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/76/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/22/)