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title: In order to carry out her plans for his welfare the Fairy now began… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In order to carry out her plans for his welfare the Fairy now began to send Prince Mannikin the most wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land, and of these adventures he himself was always the hero. Who acts: Fairy, Prince, Mannikin, sea. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hea
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 35

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In order to carry out her plans for his welfare the Fairy now began to send Prince Mannikin the most wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land, and of these adventures he himself was always the hero.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Prince, Mannikin, sea · **What happens:** carry out, begin, send, be, plan, dream · **To what, where:** plans, wonderful dreams, Mannikin, hero, adventure

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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 (Fairy, Prince, Mannikin, sea), 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:pg7277:14:35
# text = In order to carry out her plans for his welfare the Fairy now began to send Prince Mannikin the most wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land, and of these adventures he himself was always the hero.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
2	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	fixed	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	welfare	welfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
35	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry out** | to-infinitive |  | Mannikin's plans |  |  |  | for Prince's welfare | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **send** | to-infinitive | the Fairy *not said here* | the wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land | Mannikin  Prince |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Destination dream=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Prince | the hero |  |  |  | of this adventures; always *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **plan** |  | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **dream** |  |  | adventure by sea and land |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **adventure** |  | sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: by=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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