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title: She found, however, that he had already been told all about them by… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She found, however, that he had already been told all about them by a Fairy who protected him, and to whom he was related. Who acts: heroine, Fairy, Fairer. 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 clau
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 76

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She found, however, that he had already been told all about them by a Fairy who protected him, and to whom he was related.

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**Who acts:** heroine, Fairy, Fairer · **What happens:** find, tell, protect, be · **To what, where:** Fairer · **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, Fairy, Fairer), 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:pg640:23:76
# text = She found, however, that he had already been told all about them by a Fairy who protected him, and to whom he was related.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	parataxis	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | heroine |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | a Fairy | Fairer |  |  |  | about adventures *= adventure* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient about they=Topic |
| 3 | **protect** | past | a Fairy |  | Fairer |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fairer |  |  |  |  | related *property* | tree rules |

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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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