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title: And now the Ambassador sent to say that on the very next day he woul… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 66

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And now the Ambassador sent to say that on the very next day he would come in state to receive his answer, and from the earliest dawn the inhabitants were astir, to secure the best places for the grand sight; but the good Fairy Genesta was providing them an amount of amusement they were far from expecting, for she so enchanted the eyes of all the spectators that when the Ambassador’s gorgeous procession appeared, the splendid uniforms seemed to them miserable rags that a beggar would have been ashamed to wear, the prancing horses appeared as wretched skeletons hardly able to drag one leg after the other, while their trappings, which really sparkled with gold and jewels, looked like old sheepskins that would not have been good enough for a plough horse.

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**Who acts:** Ambassador, inhabitants, good Fairy, Fairies, Genesta, gorgeous procession · **What happens:** send, say, come, receive, be, secure · **To what, where:** that, state, answer, best places, places, amusement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ambassador, inhabitants, good Fairy, Fairies), 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:pg7277:16:66
# text = And now the Ambassador sent to say that on the very next day he would come in state to receive his answer, and from the earliest dawn the inhabitants were astir, to secure the best places for the grand sight; but the good Fairy Genesta was providing them an amount of amusement they were far from expecting, for she so enchanted the eyes of all the spectators that when the Ambassador’s gorgeous procession appeared, the splendid uniforms seemed to them miserable rags that a beggar would have been ashamed to wear, the prancing horses appeared as wretched skeletons hardly able to drag one leg after the other, while their trappings, which really sparkled with gold and jewels, looked like old sheepskins that would not have been good enough for a plough horse.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	Genesta	Genesta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	providing	provide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	amusement	amusement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
58	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	60	advmod	_	_
59	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
60	expecting	expect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	55	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	so	so	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	_
65	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	71	det:predet	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
71	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	nmod	_	_
72	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	79	obj	_	_
73	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	79	mark	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	78	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	’s	's	PART	POS	_	75	case	_	_
77	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	_
78	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	nsubj	_	_
79	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	_
81	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
82	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	83	amod	_	_
83	uniforms	uniform	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	84	nsubj	_	_
84	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	parataxis	_	_
85	to	to	ADP	IN	_	86	case	_	_
86	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	84	obl	_	_
87	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	amod	_	_
88	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	84	obj	_	_
89	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	95	obj	_	_
90	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	91	det	_	_
91	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	95	nsubj:pass	_	_
92	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	95	aux	_	_
93	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	95	aux	_	_
94	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	95	aux:pass	_	_
95	ashamed	asham	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	88	acl:relcl	_	_
96	to	to	PART	TO	_	97	mark	_	_
97	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	95	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
98	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	102	punct	_	_
99	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	101	det	_	_
100	prancing	prancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	101	compound	_	_
101	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	102	nsubj	_	_
102	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	95	advcl	_	_
103	as	as	ADP	IN	_	105	case	_	_
104	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	105	amod	_	_
105	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	102	obl	_	_
106	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	107	advmod	_	_
107	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	105	amod	_	_
108	to	to	PART	TO	_	109	mark	_	_
109	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	107	xcomp	_	_
110	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	111	nummod	_	_
111	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	109	obj	_	_
112	after	after	ADP	IN	_	114	case	_	_
113	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	114	det	_	_
114	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	109	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
115	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	118	punct	_	_
116	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	118	mark	_	_
117	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	118	nmod:poss	_	_
118	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	102	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
119	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	122	punct	_	_
120	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	122	nsubj:pass	_	_
121	really	really	ADV	RB	_	122	advmod	_	_
122	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	118	conj	_	_
123	with	with	ADP	IN	_	124	case	_	_
124	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	122	obl	_	_
125	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	126	cc	_	_
126	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	124	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
127	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	128	punct	_	_
128	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	122	parataxis	_	_
129	like	like	ADP	IN	_	131	case	_	_
130	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	131	amod	_	_
131	sheepskins	sheepskin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	128	obl	_	_
132	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	137	nsubj	_	_
133	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	137	aux	_	_
134	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	137	advmod	_	_
135	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	137	aux	_	_
136	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	137	cop	_	_
137	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	131	acl:relcl	_	_
138	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	137	advmod	_	_
139	for	for	ADP	IN	_	142	case	_	_
140	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	142	det	_	_
141	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	142	compound	_	_
142	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	137	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
143	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the Ambassador |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Ambassador *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | would | Ambassador |  |  | state | day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location |
| 4 | **receive** | to-infinitive | Ambassador *not said here* | Ambassador's answer |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the inhabitants |  |  |  | dawn | astir *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **secure** | to-infinitive | Ambassador *not said here* | the best places |  |  |  | for the grand sight | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition place=Theme for sight=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **provide** | past · progressive | the good Fairy | places *= place* |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition they=Beneficiary amount=Theme |
| 8 | **expect** | past · progressive | Fairies *= fairy* | amusement *not said here* |  |  |  | far *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amusement=Theme |
| 9 | **enchant** | past | Genesta | the eyes of all spectators |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer |
| 10 | **appear** | past | the Ambassador's gorgeous procession | all spectators |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 11 | **seem** | past | the splendid uniforms | miserable rags | Fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rag=Attribute |
| 12 | **asham** | would · perfect · passive |  | a beggar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **wear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 14 | **appear** | past | the prancing horses | Fairies's trappings |  |  |  | as wretched skeletons | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 15 | **drag** | to-infinitive | the prancing horses *not said here* | one leg |  |  | after the other |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 16 | **sparkle** | participle · passive |  | Fairies's trappings |  |  |  | with gold and jewels | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 17 | **look** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like old sheepskins | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 18 | **not** **is** | would · perfect | old sheepskins |  |  |  |  | for a plough horse; enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 19 | **answer** |  | Ambassador |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 20 | **amount** |  |  | amusement |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 21 | **proceed** |  | the Ambassador |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=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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