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title: She readily let Fairer-than-a-Fairy have the fire, and in return for… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She readily let Fairer-than-a-Fairy have the fire, and in return for the stone she gave her another, which, she said, might prove useful some day. Who acts: heroine. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 73

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She readily let Fairer-than-a-Fairy have the fire, and in return for the stone she gave her another, which, she said, might prove useful some day.

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**Who acts:** heroine · **What happens:** let, have, give, say, prove · **To what, where:** Fairer, fire, another, return · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heroine), 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:pg640:23:73
# text = She readily let Fairer-than-a-Fairy have the fire, and in return for the stone she gave her another, which, she said, might prove useful some day.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Fairer	Fairer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | heroine | Fairer |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairer=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | the fire |  |  |  | than a Fairy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | past | heroine | another |  | return for the stone |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | heroine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prove** | might |  |  |  |  | day | useful *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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