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title: Poor Fiordelisa, who guessed she was sent as a spy, was in despair,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Fiordelisa, who guessed she was sent as a spy, was in despair, and cried bitterly that she dared not see her dear Blue Bird for fear that some evil might happen to him if he were discovered. Who acts: Poor Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, evil. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bl
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 117

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Poor Fiordelisa, who guessed she was sent as a spy, was in despair, and cried bitterly that she dared not see her dear Blue Bird for fear that some evil might happen to him if he were discovered.

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**Who acts:** Poor Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, evil · **What happens:** guess, send, be, cry, not see, happen · **To what, where:** Fiordelisa, despair, dear Blue Bird, fear, Enchanter, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor Fiordelisa, Fiordelisa, evil), 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:pg7277:185`): 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:pg7277:3:117
# text = Poor Fiordelisa, who guessed she was sent as a spy, was in despair, and cried bitterly that she dared not see her dear Blue Bird for fear that some evil might happen to him if he were discovered.
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	dared	dare	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Blue	Blue	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guess** | past | Poor Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · passive |  | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | as a spy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Poor Fiordelisa |  |  | despair |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Poor Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa's dear Blue Bird |  |  |  | for fear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 6 | **happen** | might | some evil | fear *not said here* | Enchanter |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **discover** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | evil |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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