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title: Turning to Prince Mannikin, she said: — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Turning to Prince Mannikin, she said: Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 60

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Turning to Prince Mannikin, she said:

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**Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** turn, say · **To what, where:** Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fairy), 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:pg7277:17:60
# text = Turning to Prince Mannikin, she said:
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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