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# The Green Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, sentence 6

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First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you wanted more still, the Green Fairy Book was put together.

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**Who acts:** Blue Fairy Book, you, we · **What happens:** be, ask, make up, want, put together · **To what, where:** children, Red Fairy Book, Green Fairy Book

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Green Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Fairy Book, you, we), 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:pg7277:1:6
# text = First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you wanted more still, the Green Fairy Book was put together.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
24	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
33	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
41	together	together	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the Blue Fairy Book |  |  | there |  | first *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | you | children |  |  | then | for more | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make up** | past | we | the Red Fairy Book |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme book=Pivot |
| 4 | **want** | past | you |  |  |  | still |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **put together** | past · passive |  | the Green Fairy Book |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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