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title: Now it happened that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods lived in the lovel… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods lived in the lovely valley to which chance had led the poor fugitives, and it was she who had, in pity for their forlorn condition, sent the King such good luck to his fishing, and generally taken them under her protection. Who acts: it, Fairy, chanc
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 11

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Now it happened that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods lived in the lovely valley to which chance had led the poor fugitives, and it was she who had, in pity for their forlorn condition, sent the King such good luck to his fishing, and generally taken them under her protection.

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**Who acts:** it, Fairy, chance, King, Fish · **What happens:** happen, live, lead, be, have, send · **To what, where:** lovely valley, chance, Fairy, pity, fishing, King

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Fairy, chance, King), 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:pg7277:12:11
# text = Now it happened that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods lived in the lovely valley to which chance had led the poor fugitives, and it was she who had, in pity for their forlorn condition, sent the King such good luck to his fishing, and generally taken them under her protection.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Beech	Beech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Woods	Woods	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
19	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
43	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
44	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	under	under	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the Fairy of the Beech Woods |  |  | the lovely valley |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location |
| 3 | **lead** | past · perfect · passive |  | chance |  |  |  | to the lovely valley | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | chance | Fairy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | Fairy | pity |  |  |  | for King's forlorn condition | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 6 | **send** | past | Fairy *not said here* |  |  | Fish's fishing |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to fishing=Destination |
| 7 | **luck** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **take** | participle |  | King |  | Fairy's protection |  | generally *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 9 | **condition** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **fish** |  | Fish |  |  |  |  |  | nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 11 | **protect** |  | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom protection «act 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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