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title: Meantime the Fairy had carried off the little Prince to her own cast… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime the Fairy had carried off the little Prince to her own castle, and placed him under the care of a young peasant woman, whom she bewitched so as to make her think that this new baby was one of her own children. Who acts: Queen, new baby, young peasant woman. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Bo
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 30

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Meantime the Fairy had carried off the little Prince to her own castle, and placed him under the care of a young peasant woman, whom she bewitched so as to make her think that this new baby was one of her own children.

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**Who acts:** Queen, new baby, young peasant woman · **What happens:** carry off, place, bewitch, make, think, be · **To what, where:** Meantime, Prince, care, young peasant woman, Queen, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, new baby, young peasant woman), 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:pg7277:14:30
# text = Meantime the Fairy had carried off the little Prince to her own castle, and placed him under the care of a young peasant woman, whom she bewitched so as to make her think that this new baby was one of her own children.
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	bewitched	bewitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
38	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	ccomp	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry off** | past · perfect · passive |  | Meantime |  |  |  | off the little Prince; to Queen's own castle | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prince=Value |
| 2 | **place** | past |  | Prince |  | the care of a young peasant woman |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under care=Destination |
| 3 | **bewitch** | past | Queen | a young peasant woman |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | this new baby | one |  |  |  | of Queen's own children | tree rules |
| 7 | **care** |  | a young peasant woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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