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title: So they made a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they made a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature which was quite gentle, and followed Celandine about like a dog when she took it out every day to graze. Who acts: milk, beautiful creature, dog. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princ
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 156

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So they made a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature which was quite gentle, and followed Celandine about like a dog when she took it out every day to graze.

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**Who acts:** milk, beautiful creature, dog · **What happens:** make, be, follow, take out, graze · **To what, where:** little shelter, Celandine, shelter

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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 (milk, beautiful creature, dog), 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:pg7277:12:156
# text = So they made a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature which was quite gentle, and followed Celandine about like a dog when she took it out every day to graze.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	graze	graze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | milk | a little shelter of branches for the beautiful creature |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shelter=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | the beautiful creature |  |  |  |  | gentle *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past | milk *not said here* | Celandine |  |  |  | like a dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celandine=Theme |
| 4 | **take out** | past | dog | shelter |  |  | day |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **graze** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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