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title: As for Sabella, she gave him her hand to kiss with precisely the sam… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Sabella, she gave him her hand to kiss with precisely the same gracious indifference as she had given it to him the first time they met. Who acts: Sabella, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 18

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As for Sabella, she gave him her hand to kiss with precisely the same gracious indifference as she had given it to him the first time they met.

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**Who acts:** Sabella, King · **What happens:** give, kiss, meet · **To what, where:** hand, gallant, first time

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sabella, 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:pg7277:17:18
# text = As for Sabella, she gave him her hand to kiss with precisely the same gracious indifference as she had given it to him the first time they met.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	precisely	precisely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	indifference	indifference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Sabella | Sabella's hand | gallant |  |  | as Sabella | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=Theme |
| 2 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | Sabella *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the same gracious indifference | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect | Sabella | hand | gallant |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **meet** | past | King | the first time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Co-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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