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title: But the Fairy, who knew all about everything, said to Rosimond, when… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Fairy, who knew all about everything, said to Rosimond, when he was imploring her to accept the ring: Who acts: Fairy, Rosimond. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 95

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But the Fairy, who knew all about everything, said to Rosimond, when he was imploring her to accept the ring:

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Rosimond · **What happens:** know, say, implore, accept · **To what, where:** Rosimond, Fairy, ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Rosimond), 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:pg7277:19:95
# text = But the Fairy, who knew all about everything, said to Rosimond, when he was imploring her to accept the ring:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	imploring	implore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | about everything; all *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about everything=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy |  | Rosimond |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to rosimond=Recipient |
| 3 | **implore** | past · progressive | Rosimond | Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **accept** | to-infinitive | Rosimond *not said here* | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |

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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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