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title: So when he arrived at the Leafy Palace, more handsome and fascinatin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 52

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So when he arrived at the Leafy Palace, more handsome and fascinating even than ever she had been led to expect, he hardly so much as glanced at the Princess, but bestowed all his attention upon the old Fairy, to whom he seemed to have a hundred things to say.

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**Who acts:** Featherhead, Fairy · **What happens:** arrive, lead, expect, glance, bestow, seem · **To what, where:** Leafy Palace, Fairy, attention, hundred things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Featherhead, 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:pg7277:12:52
# text = So when he arrived at the Leafy Palace, more handsome and fascinating even than ever she had been led to expect, he hardly so much as glanced at the Princess, but bestowed all his attention upon the old Fairy, to whom he seemed to have a hundred things to say.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	glanced	glance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	parataxis	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Featherhead |  |  | the Leafy Palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past · perfect · passive |  | Fairy |  |  | ever |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **expect** | to-infinitive | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **glance** | participle | Featherhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the Princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at princess=Theme |
| 5 | **bestow** | past | Featherhead *not said here* | Featherhead's attention |  |  |  | upon the old Fairy | tree rules |
| 6 | **seem** | past | Featherhead |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | Featherhead *not said here* | hundred things |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Featherhead *not said here* | hundred things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **attend** |  | Featherhead |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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