--- title: She sent to him by an unknown messenger a portrait of Princess Celan… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She sent to him by an unknown messenger a portrait of Princess Celandine as she really was, with this inscription: ‘All this beauty and sweetness, with a loving heart and a great kingdom, might have been yours but for your well-known fickleness.’ Who acts: Fairy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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:pg7277:12:59 # text = She sent to him by an unknown messenger a portrait of Princess Celandine as she really was, with this inscription: ‘All this beauty and sweetness, with a loving heart and a great kingdom, might have been yours but for your well-known fickleness.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 unknown unknown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 messenger messenger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 portrait portrait NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 Celandine Celandine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 16 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 inscription inscription NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 25 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sweetness sweetness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 40 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 cop _ _ 42 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 conj _ _ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 45 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 46 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 amod _ _ 49 fickleness fickleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | Fairy | a portrait of Princess | Featherhead | | | by a unknown messenger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme to he=Destination | | 2 | **is** | past | Fairy | | | | | with this inscription | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | might · perfect | Fairy *not said here* | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **portray** | | | Princess | | | | | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/60/) - ↑ back to [Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/12/)