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title: Some time passed in all the usual delights of the Flower-Fairy’s pal… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time passed in all the usual delights of the Flower-Fairy’s palace, and then she sent for Sylvia again, and told her she was to stay for a little while with the Princess Daphne, and accordingly the butterflies whisked her off, and set her down in quite a strange kingdom. Who acts: time, Fairy, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 21

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Some time passed in all the usual delights of the Flower-Fairy’s palace, and then she sent for Sylvia again, and told her she was to stay for a little while with the Princess Daphne, and accordingly the butterflies whisked her off, and set her down in quite a strange kingdom.

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**Who acts:** time, Fairy, butterflies, palace · **What happens:** pass, send, tell, be, whisk off, set down · **To what, where:** usual delights, Fairy, strange kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (time, Fairy, butterflies, palace), 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:pg7277:10:21
# text = Some time passed in all the usual delights of the Flower-Fairy’s palace, and then she sent for Sylvia again, and told her she was to stay for a little while with the Princess Daphne, and accordingly the butterflies whisked her off, and set her down in quite a strange kingdom.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Daphne	Daphne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	whisked	whisk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
46	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	off	off	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	down	down	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	57	det:predet	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle | some time |  |  | all usual delights of the Flower Fairy's palace |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in delight=Location |
| 2 | **send** | past | Fairy |  |  |  | then; again | for Sylvia | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy *not said here* |  | Fairy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | Fairy |  |  |  | while | stay *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **whisk off** | past | the butterflies | Fairy |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 6 | **set down** | past | some time *not said here* | Fairy |  | quite strange kingdom |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in kingdom=Destination |
| 7 | **delight** |  | the Flower Fairy's palace |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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