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title: The fact was that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods, thinking she had bee… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact was that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods, thinking she had been punished enough, had withdrawn the enchantment from her, and transferred it to Featherhead, thereby in an instant depriving him of the good looks which had done so much towards making him the fickle creature he was. Who acts: fact
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 159

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The fact was that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods, thinking she had been punished enough, had withdrawn the enchantment from her, and transferred it to Featherhead, thereby in an instant depriving him of the good looks which had done so much towards making him the fickle creature he was.

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**Who acts:** fact, instant, good · **What happens:** think, punish, withdraw, transfer, deprive, look · **To what, where:** Fairy, enchantment, Featherhead, fickle creature

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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 (fact, instant, good), 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:pg7277:12:159
# text = The fact was that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods, thinking she had been punished enough, had withdrawn the enchantment from her, and transferred it to Featherhead, thereby in an instant depriving him of the good looks which had done so much towards making him the fickle creature he was.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	withdrawn	withdraw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
37	depriving	deprive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	nsubj	_	_
42	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	xcomp	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	much	much	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	towards	towards	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	advcl	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	fickle	fickle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | the fact |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **punish** | past · perfect · passive |  | Fairy |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past · perfect |  | the enchantment |  |  |  | from Fairy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme from she=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **transfer** | past |  | enchantment | Featherhead |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to featherhead=Recipient |
| 5 | **deprive** | gerund | a instant *not said here* | Featherhead |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source |
| 6 | **look** | present | the good |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **do** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **make** | gerund |  | the fickle creature | Featherhead |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary creature=Product |

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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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