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title: The Fairy Marsontine restored their natural forms to King Bayard and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fairy Marsontine restored their natural forms to King Bayard and all his subjects, and he appeared once more as handsome a king as you could wish to see. Who acts: Fairy Marsontine, Marsontine, you, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4, with its depende
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 68

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The Fairy Marsontine restored their natural forms to King Bayard and all his subjects, and he appeared once more as handsome a king as you could wish to see.

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**Who acts:** Fairy Marsontine, Marsontine, you, King · **What happens:** restore, appear, wish, see, form · **To what, where:** natural forms, King Bayard, king

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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 Marsontine, Marsontine, you, 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:pg7277:17:68
# text = The Fairy Marsontine restored their natural forms to King Bayard and all his subjects, and he appeared once more as handsome a king as you could wish to see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Marsontine	Marsontine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	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	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | past | the Fairy Marsontine | King's natural forms | King Bayard and Marsontine's subjects |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Theme to bayard=Recipient |
| 2 | **appear** | past | Marsontine | a king |  |  |  | as handsome | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | could | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **form** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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