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title: Just at this time the Fairy of the Beech-Woods received a visit from… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Just at this time the Fairy of the Beech-Woods received a visit from an old friend of hers called Saradine, who rushed into her house so breathless with rage that she could hardly speak. Who acts: Fairy, old friend, Saradine. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead an
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 17

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Just at this time the Fairy of the Beech-Woods received a visit from an old friend of hers called Saradine, who rushed into her house so breathless with rage that she could hardly speak.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, old friend, Saradine · **What happens:** receive, call, rush, speak · **To what, where:** visit, Saradine, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fairy, old friend, Saradine), 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:pg7277:12:17
# text = Just at this time the Fairy of the Beech-Woods received a visit from an old friend of hers called Saradine, who rushed into her house so breathless with rage that she could hardly speak.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
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	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	Saradine	Saradine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	breathless	breathless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the Fairy of the Beech Woods | a visit |  |  | time | from a old friend | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent visit=Theme from friend=Source |
| 2 | **call** | past | a old friend *not said here* |  | Saradine |  |  | of Fairy | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent saradine=Recipient |
| 3 | **rush** | past | Saradine |  |  |  |  | into Fairy's house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | Fairy |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «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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