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title: Turritella, for that was her name, had been brought up by her godmot… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Turritella, for that was her name, had been brought up by her godmother, the Fairy Mazilla, but in spite of all the care bestowed upon her, she was neither beautiful nor gracious. Who acts: that, godmother, Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 14

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Turritella, for that was her name, had been brought up by her godmother, the Fairy Mazilla, but in spite of all the care bestowed upon her, she was neither beautiful nor gracious.

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**Who acts:** that, godmother, Turritella · **What happens:** be, bring up, bestow, spite · **To what, where:** Turritella, spite, care

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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 (that, godmother, Turritella), 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:pg7277:2:14
# text = Turritella, for that was her name, had been brought up by her godmother, the Fairy Mazilla, but in spite of all the care bestowed upon her, she was neither beautiful nor gracious.
1	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	35	cc:preconj	_	_
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	_
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
37	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for Turritella's name | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring up** | past · perfect · passive | Turritella's godmother | Turritella |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bestow** | participle | Turritella's godmother *not said here* |  |  | spite of all care |  | upon Turritella | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Turritella *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spite** |  |  | all care |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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