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title: Turritella answered as she had been taught, that she was very unhapp… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Turritella answered as she had been taught, that she was very unhappy, and that there was no chance of her being better treated by the Queen until her daughter was married. Who acts: Turritella, chance, Queen. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its depen
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 79

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Turritella answered as she had been taught, that she was very unhappy, and that there was no chance of her being better treated by the Queen until her daughter was married.

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**Who acts:** Turritella, chance, Queen · **What happens:** answer, teach, be, treat, marry · **To what, where:** Turritella, chance, daughter · **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 (Turritella, chance, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:92`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:2:79
# text = Turritella answered as she had been taught, that she was very unhappy, and that there was no chance of her being better treated by the Queen until her daughter was married.
1	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | Turritella |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | past | no chance |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **treat** | gerund · passive | the Queen | chance |  |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 6 | **marry** | past · passive |  | chance's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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