--- title: Grannonia alone kept her presence of mind, and although both her fat… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Grannonia alone kept her presence of mind, and although both her father and mother implored her to fly for her life, she wouldn’t move a step, saying, ‘I’m certainly not going to fly from the man you have chosen for my husband.’ Who acts: Grannonia, father, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grannonia, father, I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:25:33 # text = Grannonia alone kept her presence of mind, and although both her father and mother implored her to fly for her life, she wouldn’t move a step, saying, ‘I’m certainly not going to fly from the man you have chosen for my husband.’ 1 Grannonia Grannonia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 alone alone ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 presence presence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 although although SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 11 both both CCONJ CC _ 13 cc:preconj _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 implored implore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 36 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 ccomp _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ _ 41 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 chosen choose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 acl:relcl _ _ 47 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Grannonia | Grannonia's presence of mind | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent presence=Theme | | 2 | **implore** | past | Grannonia's father and mother | | Grannonia | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Grannonia's father and mother *not said here* | | | | | for Grannonia's life | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **move** | would | Grannonia | a step | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Grannonia *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **be** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **go** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **fly** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | from the man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from man=Trajectory | | 9 | **choose** | present · perfect | you | the man *not said here* | | | | for my husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent man=Theme for husband=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/34/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/25/)