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title: All this time Turritella was spreading out lace, and jewels, and ric… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All this time Turritella was spreading out lace, and jewels, and rich brocades, and ribbons before Fiordelisa’s unwilling eyes, and taking good care to display King Charming’s ring, which she wore upon her thumb. Who acts: Turritella, ring. 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 37

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All this time Turritella was spreading out lace, and jewels, and rich brocades, and ribbons before Fiordelisa’s unwilling eyes, and taking good care to display King Charming’s ring, which she wore upon her thumb.

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**Who acts:** Turritella, ring · **What happens:** spread out, take, display, wear · **To what, where:** lace, good care, ring

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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 (Turritella, ring), 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:pg7277:3:37
# text = All this time Turritella was spreading out lace, and jewels, and rich brocades, and ribbons before Fiordelisa’s unwilling eyes, and taking good care to display King Charming’s ring, which she wore upon her thumb.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	brocades	brocade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	unwilling	unwilling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
27	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	_
32	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
34	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | past · progressive | Turritella | lace |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lace=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | Turritella *not said here* | good care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 3 | **display** | to-infinitive | Turritella *not said here* | King's ring |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | King's ring |  |  |  |  | upon Fiordelisa's thumb | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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