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title: One of the Fairies immediately despatched her chariot for the Queen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One of the Fairies immediately despatched her chariot for the Queen of the Spice Islands, and their wedding took place at the same time as that of Prince Mannikin and the lovely and gracious Sabella. Who acts: One, wedding, Islands. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 69

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One of the Fairies immediately despatched her chariot for the Queen of the Spice Islands, and their wedding took place at the same time as that of Prince Mannikin and the lovely and gracious Sabella.

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**Who acts:** One, wedding, Islands · **What happens:** despatch, take, wed · **To what, where:** chariot, place

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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 (One, wedding, Islands), 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:pg7277:17:69
# text = One of the Fairies immediately despatched her chariot for the Queen of the Spice Islands, and their wedding took place at the same time as that of Prince Mannikin and the lovely and gracious Sabella.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	despatched	despatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Spice	Spice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Islands	Island	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:desc	_	_
30	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despatch** | past | One | Fairy's chariot |  |  |  | of the Fairies; for the Queen of the Spice Islands; immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | Islands's wedding | place |  |  | time |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **wed** |  | Islands *= island* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wedding «event 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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