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title: And not another word would he say, though the Fairy scolded and thre… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And not another word would he say, though the Fairy scolded and threatened, and Turritella wept and raged for twenty days and twenty nights. Who acts: word, Fairy, Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 19

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And not another word would he say, though the Fairy scolded and threatened, and Turritella wept and raged for twenty days and twenty nights.

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**Who acts:** word, Fairy, Turritella · **What happens:** not say, scold, threaten, weep, rage · **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 (word, Fairy, Turritella), 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:pg7277:3:19
# text = And not another word would he say, though the Fairy scolded and threatened, and Turritella wept and raged for twenty days and twenty nights.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	scolded	scold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	raged	rage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | would | another word |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scold** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **threaten** | past | the Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **weep** | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rage** | past | Turritella *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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