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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 6

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She greeted the fainting Princess most kindly, gave her an excellent supper, and after a long night’s rest in a delightful bed told her that after many troubles she should finally attain her desire.

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**Who acts:** Lagree · **What happens:** greet, give, tell, attain, desire · **To what, where:** fainting Princess, excellent supper, Lagree, desire · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lagree), 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:pg640:24:6
# text = She greeted the fainting Princess most kindly, gave her an excellent supper, and after a long night’s rest in a delightful bed told her that after many troubles she should finally attain her desire.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fainting	fainting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
29	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | Lagree |  | the fainting Princess |  |  | kindly *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | Lagree *not said here* | a excellent supper | Lagree |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient supper=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lagree *not said here* |  | Lagree |  | after a long night's rest in a delightful bed |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **attain** | should | Lagree | Lagree's desire |  |  | after many troubles | finally *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** |  | Lagree |  |  |  |  |  | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=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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