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title: Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming Princess imaginable, always gay and merry. Who acts: name, lady, most. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 12

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Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming Princess imaginable, always gay and merry.

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**Who acts:** name, lady, most · **What happens:** be, charm, name · **To what, where:** Fiordelisa, Princess

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, lady, most), 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:pg7277:2:12
# text = Her name was Fiordelisa, and she was the prettiest and most charming Princess imaginable, always gay and merry.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj	_	_
13	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | lady's name | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | lady | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **charm** | gerund | most | Princess |  |  |  | imaginable *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer |
| 4 | **name** |  | lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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