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title: She has all the beauty of gentleness and contentment in her sweet fa… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She has all the beauty of gentleness and contentment in her sweet face; and if at times it seems less lovely through some chance grief or disquietude, the hardest thing that one ever hears said is: Who acts: Fairy, it, one. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts, with its d
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 51

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She has all the beauty of gentleness and contentment in her sweet face; and if at times it seems less lovely through some chance grief or disquietude, the hardest thing that one ever hears said is:

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**Who acts:** Fairy, it, one · **What happens:** have, seem, hear, say · **To what, where:** beauty, chance grief, hardest thing · **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 (Fairy, it, one), 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:pg7277:10:51
# text = She has all the beauty of gentleness and contentment in her sweet face; and if at times it seems less lovely through some chance grief or disquietude, the hardest thing that one ever hears said is:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	contentment	contentment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	disquietude	disquietude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	ccomp	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Fairy | all beauty of gentleness and contentment in Fairy's sweet face |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient |
| 2 | **seem** | present | it |  |  | some chance grief or disquietude and the hardest thing |  | lovely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | present | one | the hardest thing |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S» |

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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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