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title: Sylvia was very unwilling to go away, but as the Fairy wished it she… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sylvia was very unwilling to go away, but as the Fairy wished it she said nothing--only when the two months were over she stepped joyfully into the butterfly chariot, and could not get back quickly enough to the Flower-Fairy, who, for her part, was equally delighted to see her again. Who acts: Sylvi
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# The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 9

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Sylvia was very unwilling to go away, but as the Fairy wished it she said nothing--only when the two months were over she stepped joyfully into the butterfly chariot, and could not get back quickly enough to the Flower-Fairy, who, for her part, was equally delighted to see her again.

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**Who acts:** Sylvia, Fairy, two months · **What happens:** be, go away, wish, say, not get back, see · **To what, where:** wish, nothing, butterfly chariot, Fairy · **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 (Sylvia, Fairy, two months), 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:pg7277:10:9
# text = Sylvia was very unwilling to go away, but as the Fairy wished it she said nothing--only when the two months were over she stepped joyfully into the butterfly chariot, and could not get back quickly enough to the Flower-Fairy, who, for her part, was equally delighted to see her again.
1	Sylvia	Sylvia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
43	Flower	Flower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
54	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advcl	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	advcl	_	_
58	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sylvia |  |  |  |  | unwilling *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go away** | to-infinitive | Sylvia *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | past | the Fairy | wish |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | the two months |  |  | the butterfly chariot |  | joyfully, step *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **get back** | could |  |  |  |  |  | enough, quickly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the Flower Fairy; delighted, equally *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **see** | to-infinitive |  | Fairy |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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