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title: He was just about to present her to his mother and the Court, feelin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was just about to present her to his mother and the Court, feeling sure that her charms would win all hearts, when the three green and white sisters appeared. Who acts: Court, charms, three green sisters. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with i
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 37

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He was just about to present her to his mother and the Court, feeling sure that her charms would win all hearts, when the three green and white sisters appeared.

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**Who acts:** Court, charms, three green sisters · **What happens:** be, feel, win, appear · **To what, where:** hearts

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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 (Court, charms, three green sisters), 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:pg640:24:37
# text = He was just about to present her to his mother and the Court, feeling sure that her charms would win all hearts, when the three green and white sisters appeared.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Court |  |  |  |  | to Court's mother and the Court; about, present *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Court *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **win** | would | Fairy's charms | all hearts |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 4 | **appear** | past | the three green sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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