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title: At length heaven granted him a daughter of such remarkable beauty th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length heaven granted him a daughter of such remarkable beauty that he could think of no name so appropriate for her as ‘Fairer-than-a-Fairy.’ Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 46

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At length heaven granted him a daughter of such remarkable beauty that he could think of no name so appropriate for her as ‘Fairer-than-a-Fairy.’

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** grant, think · **To what, where:** daughter, King, length heaven

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (King), 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:pg640:23:46
# text = At length heaven granted him a daughter of such remarkable beauty that he could think of no name so appropriate for her as ‘Fairer-than-a-Fairy.’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grant** | past |  | a daughter of such remarkable beauty | King | length heaven |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | could | King |  |  |  |  | of no name | vn focus-87.1-1 «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 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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