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title: And so she chattered on, but poor Celandine did not hear or heed her… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so she chattered on, but poor Celandine did not hear or heed her; she wandered out into the desolate country to think over her sad fate. Who acts: dame, poor Celandine. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 150

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And so she chattered on, but poor Celandine did not hear or heed her; she wandered out into the desolate country to think over her sad fate.

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**Who acts:** dame, poor Celandine · **What happens:** chatter, not hear, heed, wander out, desolate, think · **To what, where:** dame, desolate country, sad fate

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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 (dame, poor Celandine), 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:pg7277:12:150
# text = And so she chattered on, but poor Celandine did not hear or heed her; she wandered out into the desolate country to think over her sad fate.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	heed	heed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	compound	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** | past | dame |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **hear** | past · do-support | poor Celandine |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **heed** | infinitive | poor Celandine *not said here* | dame |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **wander out** | past | dame |  |  | the desolate country |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination |
| 5 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | dame *not said here* |  |  | dame's sad fate |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **fate** |  | dame |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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