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title: But it was worse than anything he had imagined when the Fairy Mazill… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was worse than anything he had imagined when the Fairy Mazilla entered, leading Turritella by the hand, and said to him-- Who acts: haste, dark, Fairy Mazilla. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 97

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But it was worse than anything he had imagined when the Fairy Mazilla entered, leading Turritella by the hand, and said to him--

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**Who acts:** haste, dark, Fairy Mazilla · **What happens:** be, imagine, enter, lead, say · **To what, where:** Turritella, dark · **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 (haste, dark, Fairy Mazilla), 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:pg7277:2:97
# text = But it was worse than anything he had imagined when the Fairy Mazilla entered, leading Turritella by the hand, and said to him--
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | haste |  |  |  |  | than anything; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | past · perfect | dark |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the Fairy Mazilla |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund | the Fairy Mazilla *not said here* | Turritella |  |  |  | by the hand | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent turritella=Theme by hand=Destination |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | haste *not said here* |  | dark |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |

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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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