--- title: True to her plan the Fairy sent him various adventures to prove his… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: True to her plan the Fairy sent him various adventures to prove his courage, and he came successfully through them all, only in his last fight with a furious monster rather like a tiger he had the ill luck to lose his horse. Who acts: True, Japan. 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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 (True, Japan), 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:pg7277:14:58 # text = True to her plan the Fairy sent him various adventures to prove his courage, and he came successfully through them all, only in his last fight with a furious monster rather like a tiger he had the ill luck to lose his horse. 1 True true NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 7 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 adventures adventure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 successfully successfully ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 only only ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 furious furious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 33 rather rather ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 tiger tiger NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | True to True's plan | various adventures | Japan | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination adventure=Theme | | 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | True to True's plan *not said here* | Japan's courage | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | Japan | | | Japan's last fight with a furious monster like a tiger | | through Fairies *= fairy*; successfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **have** | past | Japan | the ill luck | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | | 5 | **lose** | to-infinitive | Japan *not said here* | Japan's horse | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | | 6 | **plan** | | True | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **fight** | | Japan | | | | | with a furious monster like a tiger | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/59/) - ↑ back to [Heart of Ice, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/14/)