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title: But the person she really relied upon for curing Celandine of her va… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the person she really relied upon for curing Celandine of her vanity was Prince Featherhead. Who acts: person, Celandine. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 48

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But the person she really relied upon for curing Celandine of her vanity was Prince Featherhead.

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**Who acts:** person, Celandine · **What happens:** rely, cure, be · **To what, where:** Prince Featherhead

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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 (person, Celandine), 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:pg7277:12:48
# text = But the person she really relied upon for curing Celandine of her vanity was Prince Featherhead.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	relied	rely	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	curing	cure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely** | past | the person |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cure** | gerund | the person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Celandine of person's vanity | Prince Featherhead |  |  |  |  | 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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