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title: When she heard what the Fairy demanded this time, she answered smili… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When she heard what the Fairy demanded this time, she answered smilingly, ‘Never fear,’ and handed him another draught, which very soon caused the Prince to sink into a deep sleep. Who acts: girl, Fairy, draught. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, w
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 75

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When she heard what the Fairy demanded this time, she answered smilingly, ‘Never fear,’ and handed him another draught, which very soon caused the Prince to sink into a deep sleep.

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**Who acts:** girl, Fairy, draught · **What happens:** hear, demand, answer, not fear, hand, cause · **To what, where:** draught, Prince, deep sleep · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Fairy, draught), 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:pg640:25:75
# text = When she heard what the Fairy demanded this time, she answered smilingly, ‘Never fear,’ and handed him another draught, which very soon caused the Prince to sink into a deep sleep.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	smilingly	smilingly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the Fairy |  |  |  | time |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Precondition |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | smilingly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **fear** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **hand** | past | Fairy *not said here* | another draught | Prince |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination draught=Theme |
| 6 | **cause** | past |  | another draught |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **sink** | to-infinitive | another draught *not said here* |  |  | a deep sleep |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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