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title: As to the other Fairies, they went home after the banquet without di… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the other Fairies, they went home after the banquet without discovering that anything was amiss, and so the King and Queen were quite happy. Who acts: Fairy, anything, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 68

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As to the other Fairies, they went home after the banquet without discovering that anything was amiss, and so the King and Queen were quite happy.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, anything, King · **What happens:** go, discover, be

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, anything, King), 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:pg7277:15:68
# text = As to the other Fairies, they went home after the banquet without discovering that anything was amiss, and so the King and Queen were quite happy.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	5	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	discovering	discover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	amiss	amiss	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Fairy |  |  |  | after the banquet | as the other Fairies; home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **discover** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | anything |  |  |  |  | amiss *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the King and Queen |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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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