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title: At last the Fairy Mazilla said furiously (for she was quite tired ou… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the Fairy Mazilla said furiously (for she was quite tired out by his obstinacy), ‘Choose whether you will marry my goddaughter, or do penance seven years for breaking your word to her.’ Who acts: Fairy Mazilla, Mazilla, you, your. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 20

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At last the Fairy Mazilla said furiously (for she was quite tired out by his obstinacy), ‘Choose whether you will marry my goddaughter, or do penance seven years for breaking your word to her.’

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**Who acts:** Fairy Mazilla, Mazilla, you, your · **What happens:** say, be, choose, marry, do, break · **To what, where:** last, goddaughter, penance, word, Mazilla · **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 (Fairy Mazilla, Mazilla, you, your), 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:pg7277:3:20
# text = At last the Fairy Mazilla said furiously (for she was quite tired out by his obstinacy), ‘Choose whether you will marry my goddaughter, or do penance seven years for breaking your word to her.’
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Mazilla	Mazilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	obstinacy	obstinacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
22	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	goddaughter	goddaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy Mazilla |  |  | last |  | furiously *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mazilla |  |  |  |  | by Turritella's obstinacy; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **choose** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **marry** | future | you | my goddaughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goddaughter=Patient |
| 5 | **do** | infinitive | you *not said here* | penance |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Eventuality |
| 6 | **break** | gerund | you *not said here* | your word | Mazilla |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent word=Patient to she=Result |
| 7 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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