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title: It generally happens that people’s surroundings reflect more or less… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It generally happens that people’s surroundings reflect more or less accurately their minds and dispositions, so perhaps that is why the Flower Fairy lived in a lovely palace, with the most delightful garden you can imagine, full of flowers, and trees, and fountains, and fish-ponds, and everything n
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 1

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It generally happens that people’s surroundings reflect more or less accurately their minds and dispositions, so perhaps that is why the Flower Fairy lived in a lovely palace, with the most delightful garden you can imagine, full of flowers, and trees, and fountains, and fish-ponds, and everything nice.

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**Who acts:** It, surroundings, that, Flower Fairy, you · **What happens:** happen, reflect, be, live, imagine, mind · **To what, where:** trees, minds, lovely palace, delightful garden

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, surroundings, that, Flower Fairy), 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:pg7277:10:1
# text = It generally happens that people’s surroundings reflect more or less accurately their minds and dispositions, so perhaps that is why the Flower Fairy lived in a lovely palace, with the most delightful garden you can imagine, full of flowers, and trees, and fountains, and fish-ponds, and everything nice.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reflect	reflect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
12	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dispositions	disposition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	parataxis	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	ponds	pond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	58	nsubj	_	_
58	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | It | trees and fountains and fish ponds |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reflect** | present | people's surroundings | surroundings's minds and dispositions |  |  |  | accurately *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | perhaps, why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past | the Flower Fairy |  |  | a lovely palace |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location |
| 5 | **imagine** | can | you | the delightful garden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot garden=Theme |
| 6 | **mind** |  | surroundings |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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 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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