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title: She at once determined that her own daughter should be at the little… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She at once determined that her own daughter should be at the little window; and she taught her so well all she was to say and do, that even the stupid Turritella could make no mistake. Who acts: Fiordelisa, own daughter, stupid Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bl
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 77

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She at once determined that her own daughter should be at the little window; and she taught her so well all she was to say and do, that even the stupid Turritella could make no mistake.

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**Who acts:** Fiordelisa, own daughter, stupid Turritella · **What happens:** determine, be, teach, do, make · **To what, where:** little window, daughter, mistake

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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, own daughter, stupid 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:pg7277:2:77
# text = She at once determined that her own daughter should be at the little window; and she taught her so well all she was to say and do, that even the stupid Turritella could make no mistake.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
37	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	det	_	_
38	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | should | Fiordelisa's own daughter |  |  | the little window |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Fiordelisa |  | daughter |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | all, say *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | could | the stupid Turritella | no mistake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Product |

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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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