--- title: The Fairy of the Beech-Woods ran to welcome the Prince and Princess… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Fairy of the Beech-Woods ran to welcome the Prince and Princess with open arms, only too delighted to find them so much improved that she could, with a clear conscience, begin to spoil them again. Who acts: Fairy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:12:192 # text = The Fairy of the Beech-Woods ran to welcome the Prince and Princess with open arms, only too delighted to find them so much improved that she could, with a clear conscience, begin to spoil them again. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Beech Beech PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Woods Woods PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 8 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 welcome welcome VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 improved improve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 conscience conscience NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 begin begin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 again again ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the Fairy of the Beech Woods | | | | | with a clear conscience | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with conscience=Material | | 2 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods *not said here* | the Prince and Princess | | | | with open arms | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods *not said here* | arms *= arm* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **improve** | past | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **begin** | infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **spoil** | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Beech Woods *not said here* | arms *= arm* | | | again | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/191/) - next →: [sentence 193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/193/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)