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title: However, as she easily guessed who had played her such a trick, she… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, as she easily guessed who had played her such a trick, she made no complaint, but sent to the merchants for some rich stuffs. Who acts: Fiordelisa. 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 22

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However, as she easily guessed who had played her such a trick, she made no complaint, but sent to the merchants for some rich stuffs.

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**Who acts:** Fiordelisa · **What happens:** guess, play, make, send · **To what, where:** Fiordelisa, complaint, merchants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:2:22
# text = However, as she easily guessed who had played her such a trick, she made no complaint, but sent to the merchants for some rich stuffs.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stuffs	stuff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** | past · perfect |  | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | such trick *obl:unmarked* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Fiordelisa | no complaint |  |  |  | however *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Product |
| 4 | **send** | participle | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  | the merchants |  | for some rich stuffs | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to merchant=Destination |

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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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