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title: Now it happened that it was nearly midnight, and Fiordelisa, all dec… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that it was nearly midnight, and Fiordelisa, all decked with jewels, was sitting at the window with the Blue Bird, and as the Queen paused outside the door to listen she heard the Princess and her lover singing together a little song he had just taught her. Who acts: it, tower, Fiord
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 91

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Now it happened that it was nearly midnight, and Fiordelisa, all decked with jewels, was sitting at the window with the Blue Bird, and as the Queen paused outside the door to listen she heard the Princess and her lover singing together a little song he had just taught her.

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**Who acts:** it, tower, Fiordelisa, Queen, little song · **What happens:** happen, be, deck, sit, pause, listen · **To what, where:** midnight, Fiordelisa, window, door, Princess, little song

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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 (it, tower, Fiordelisa, Queen), 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:pg7277:3:91
# text = Now it happened that it was nearly midnight, and Fiordelisa, all decked with jewels, was sitting at the window with the Blue Bird, and as the Queen paused outside the door to listen she heard the Princess and her lover singing together a little song he had just taught her.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	advcl	_	_
46	together	together	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	just	just	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	acl:relcl	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | tower | midnight |  |  |  | nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deck** | participle |  | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  | with jewels; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past · progressive | Fiordelisa |  |  | the window |  | with the Blue Bird | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 5 | **pause** | past | the Queen |  |  | the door |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location |
| 6 | **listen** | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | past | Fiordelisa | the Princess and Fiordelisa's lover |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 8 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Fiordelisa *not said here* | a little song |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 9 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | a little song *not said here* | Turritella | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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