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title: ‘And thereupon she despatched six jays, who were her pages, to fetch… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And thereupon she despatched six jays, who were her pages, to fetch me all sorts of biscuits, while some of the other birds brought ripe fruits. Who acts: meadow, six jays, some. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 53

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‘And thereupon she despatched six jays, who were her pages, to fetch me all sorts of biscuits, while some of the other birds brought ripe fruits.

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**Who acts:** meadow, six jays, some · **What happens:** despatch, be, fetch, bring, sort · **To what, where:** six jays, pages, sorts, me, ripe fruits, biscuits

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meadow, six jays, some), 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:pg7277:38:53
# text = ‘And thereupon she despatched six jays, who were her pages, to fetch me all sorts of biscuits, while some of the other birds brought ripe fruits.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	despatched	despatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	jays	jay	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despatch** | past | meadow | six jays and meadow's pages |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | six jays and meadow's pages | meadow's pages |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** | to-infinitive |  | all sorts of biscuits | me |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary sort=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | past | some | ripe fruits |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | biscuits |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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