--- title: Then the black girl told him that she too was in the power of the Fa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the black girl told him that she too was in the power of the Fairy, who had doomed her to wander about in her present guise until some youth should take pity on her and bear her in safety to the other side of the river which they saw in the distance, and on the other side of which the Fairy’s d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/) / 62 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 62 Then the black girl told him that she too was in the power of the Fairy, who had doomed her to wander about in her present guise until some youth should take pity on her and bear her in safety to the other side of the river which they saw in the distance, and on the other side of which the Fairy’s domain and power ended. **Who acts:** black girl, girl, power, youth, river · **What happens:** tell, be, doom, wander, take, bear · **To what, where:** Prince, power, girl, present guise, pity, safety · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (black girl, girl, power, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:25:62 # text = Then the black girl told him that she too was in the power of the Fairy, who had doomed her to wander about in her present guise until some youth should take pity on her and bear her in safety to the other side of the river which they saw in the distance, and on the other side of which the Fairy’s domain and power ended. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 doomed doom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 wander wander VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 guise guise NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 until until SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 det _ _ 31 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 34 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 51 obj _ _ 50 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 52 in in ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 57 on on ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 66 obl _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ’s 's PART POS _ 64 case _ _ 66 domain domain NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 conj _ _ 69 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the black girl | | Prince | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | past | girl | | | the power | | of the Fairy | tree rules | | 3 | **doom** | past · perfect | the power | girl | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wander** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* | | | girl's present guise | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in guise=Trajectory | | 5 | **take** | should | some youth | pity | | | | on girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on she=Destination | | 6 | **bear** | infinitive | some youth *not said here* | girl | | safety | | to the other side of the river | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 7 | **see** | past | river | the river | | | | in the distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | | 8 | **end** | past | the black girl *not said here* | | | the other side the Fairy's domain and power | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/63/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)