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title: However, before very long the Fairy sent her to Phyllida, and waited… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, before very long the Fairy sent her to Phyllida, and waited for her report with unabated interest. Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 41

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However, before very long the Fairy sent her to Phyllida, and waited for her report with unabated interest.

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** send, wait, report · **To what, where:** Fairy, Phyllida

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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 (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:pg7277:10:41
# text = However, before very long the Fairy sent her to Phyllida, and waited for her report with unabated interest.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Phyllida	Phyllida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	unabated	unabated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past |  | Fairy | Phyllida |  | before the long Fairy | however *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to phyllida=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for Fairy's report; with unabated interest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **report** |  | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom report «communication 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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