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title: The old Fairy thought so too, but as this was not at all what she wi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old Fairy thought so too, but as this was not at all what she wished, she took care to throw such an enchantment over the Princess that she appeared to Featherhead quite ugly and awkward, though to every one else she looked just as usual. Who acts: old Fairy, Fairy. A sentence of «The Green Fair
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 51

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The old Fairy thought so too, but as this was not at all what she wished, she took care to throw such an enchantment over the Princess that she appeared to Featherhead quite ugly and awkward, though to every one else she looked just as usual.

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**Who acts:** old Fairy, Fairy · **What happens:** think, wish, take, throw, appear, look · **To what, where:** care, enchantment, one

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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), 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:pg7277:12:51
# text = The old Fairy thought so too, but as this was not at all what she wished, she took care to throw such an enchantment over the Princess that she appeared to Featherhead quite ugly and awkward, though to every one else she looked just as usual.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	obl	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
24	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Featherhead	featherhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
44	else	else	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
47	just	just	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	as	as	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the old Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wish** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **take** | past | Fairy | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | to-infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | such enchantment |  |  |  | over the Princess | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent enchantment=Theme over princess=Destination |
| 5 | **appear** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | to Featherhead | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | past | Fairy |  | every one |  |  | usual *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to one=Experiencer |

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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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