--- title: And Celandine could not help thinking that it was to her that the Fa… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And Celandine could not help thinking that it was to her that the Fairy meant to give the two blue wax-torches which burned without ever getting smaller, or the diamond from which more diamonds were continually growing, or the boat that sailed under water, or whatever beautiful or wonderful thing th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Ce…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/) / 46 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 46 And Celandine could not help thinking that it was to her that the Fairy meant to give the two blue wax-torches which burned without ever getting smaller, or the diamond from which more diamonds were continually growing, or the boat that sailed under water, or whatever beautiful or wonderful thing they might happen to be looking at. **Who acts:** Celandine, care, Fairy, two blue wax torches, more diamonds, boat · **What happens:** not help, think, be, mean, give, burn · **To what, where:** two blue wax torches, water, beautiful thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Celandine, care, Fairy, two blue wax torches), 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:pg7277:12:46 # text = And Celandine could not help thinking that it was to her that the Fairy meant to give the two blue wax-torches which burned without ever getting smaller, or the diamond from which more diamonds were continually growing, or the boat that sailed under water, or whatever beautiful or wonderful thing they might happen to be looking at. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 Celandine Celandine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 xcomp _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 ccomp _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 19 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 torches torch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 24 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 without without SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 28 advmod _ _ 28 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 29 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 36 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 amod _ _ 37 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 continually continually ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 45 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj _ _ 46 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 47 under under ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Int 46 advcl _ _ 52 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 amod _ _ 53 or or CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 conj _ _ 55 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 56 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 57 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 acl:relcl _ _ 59 to to PART TO _ 61 mark _ _ 60 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 61 aux _ _ 61 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 58 advcl _ _ 62 at at ADP IN _ 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **help** | could | Celandine | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | gerund | Celandine *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | care | | | | | to Fairy | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | past | the Fairy | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Fairy *not said here* | the two blue wax torches | | | | the diamond *obl*; the boat *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Theme | | 6 | **burn** | past | the two blue wax torches | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **get** | gerund | the two blue wax torches *not said here* | | | | ever | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **grow** | past · progressive | more diamonds | | | | | from the diamond; continually *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from which=Patient | | 9 | **sail** | past | the boat | | | water | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **happen** | might | things *= thing* | beautiful thing *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **look** | to-infinitive · progressive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/47/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)