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title: The old Fairy was equally delighted with her, and often invited her… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 43

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The old Fairy was equally delighted with her, and often invited her to visit her Leafy Palace, which was the most enchanting place that could be imagined, and full of treasures.

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**Who acts:** old Fairy, Fairy, Leafy Palace · **What happens:** be, invite, visit, enchant, imagine · **To what, where:** Fairy, Leafy Palace, enchanting place

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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 (old Fairy, Fairy, Leafy Palace), 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:pg7277:12:43
# text = The old Fairy was equally delighted with her, and often invited her to visit her Leafy Palace, which was the most enchanting place that could be imagined, and full of treasures.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	24	advmod	_	_
24	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the old Fairy |  |  |  |  | with Princess; delighted, equally *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **invite** | past | the old Fairy *not said here* | Fairy |  |  |  | often *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | Fairy's Leafy Palace |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **enchant** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Fairy's Leafy Palace | the enchanting place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **imagine** | could · passive |  | the enchanting place |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **be** |  | the old Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of treasures | tree rules |

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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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