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title: She fondly embraced her son, after which she informed him that his f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She fondly embraced her son, after which she informed him that his father had been dead for some years, that the anger of the Fairies was at length appeased, and that he might return in peace to reign over his people, who were longing for his presence. Who acts: first, father, anger, rainbow. A sent
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 35

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She fondly embraced her son, after which she informed him that his father had been dead for some years, that the anger of the Fairies was at length appeased, and that he might return in peace to reign over his people, who were longing for his presence.

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**Who acts:** first, father, anger, rainbow, people, Fairies · **What happens:** embrace, inform, be, appease, return, reign · **To what, where:** son, rainbow, length, peace

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first, father, anger, rainbow), 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:pg640:24:35
# text = She fondly embraced her son, after which she informed him that his father had been dead for some years, that the anger of the Fairies was at length appeased, and that he might return in peace to reign over his people, who were longing for his presence.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	cop	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
31	appeased	appease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	reign	reign	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	advcl	_	_
42	over	over	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	48	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	acl	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | first | first's son |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | first |  | rainbow |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect | rainbow's father |  |  |  | year | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the anger of the Fairies |  |  | length |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **appease** | participle |  | length *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **return** | might | rainbow |  |  | peace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **reign** | to-infinitive | rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over rainbow's people | tree rules |
| 8 | **long** | past · progressive | rainbow's people |  |  |  |  | for rainbow's presence | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for presence=Theme |
| 9 | **anger** |  | the Fairies |  |  |  |  |  | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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