--- title: And when she had convinced herself that this was so, she stepped for… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when she had convinced herself that this was so, she stepped forward, and, full of wrath over the quarrels and feuds Parsley’s beauty gave rise to, she cursed the girl and said, ‘I wish you were an ugly toad, sitting under a bridge at the other end of the world.’ Who acts: Parsley, this, beauty, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/63/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/) / 63 # The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 63 And when she had convinced herself that this was so, she stepped forward, and, full of wrath over the quarrels and feuds Parsley’s beauty gave rise to, she cursed the girl and said, ‘I wish you were an ugly toad, sitting under a bridge at the other end of the world.’ **Who acts:** Parsley, this, beauty, I, you, ugly toad · **What happens:** convince, be, step forward, give, curse, say · **To what, where:** Parsley, rise, girl, ugly toad, bridge · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parsley, this, beauty, I), 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:pg7277:29:63 # text = And when she had convinced herself that this was so, she stepped forward, and, full of wrath over the quarrels and feuds Parsley’s beauty gave rise to, she cursed the girl and said, ‘I wish you were an ugly toad, sitting under a bridge at the other end of the world.’ 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 convinced convince VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 14 forward forward ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 wrath wrath NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 quarrels quarrel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 feuds feud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 Parsley Parsley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 30 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 cursed curse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 parataxis _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 47 acl _ _ 50 under under ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 at at ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 55 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 56 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 57 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **convince** | past · perfect | Parsley | Parsley | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | this | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **step forward** | past | Parsley | | | | | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | Parsley's beauty | rise | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rise=Theme | | 5 | **curse** | past | Parsley | the girl | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Parsley *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **wish** | present | I | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 8 | **is a** | past | you | a ugly toad | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **sit** | gerund | a ugly toad *not said here* | | | a bridge | at the other end of the world | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/64/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/)