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title: She ordered Fairer-than-a-Fairy to start next day at dawn to ask Loc… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She ordered Fairer-than-a-Fairy to start next day at dawn to ask Locrinos for fire with which to relight the one she had allowed to go out. Who acts: Lagree, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 67

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She ordered Fairer-than-a-Fairy to start next day at dawn to ask Locrinos for fire with which to relight the one she had allowed to go out.

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**Who acts:** Lagree, one · **What happens:** order, start, ask, relight, allow, go out · **To what, where:** Fairer, Locrinos, one, Lagree

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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 (Lagree, one), 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:pg640:23:67
# text = She ordered Fairer-than-a-Fairy to start next day at dawn to ask Locrinos for fire with which to relight the one she had allowed to go out.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	Locrinos	Locrinos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	relight	relight	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Lagree |  | Fairer |  |  | than a Fairy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairer=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | to-infinitive | Lagree *not said here* |  |  |  | dawn; day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Lagree *not said here* |  | Locrinos |  |  | for fire | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent locrinos=Recipient |
| 4 | **relight** | to-infinitive |  | the one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **allow** | past · perfect · passive | the one *not said here* | Lagree |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lagree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «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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