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title: We entered by one of the windows, and when the Bird had handed me ov… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: We entered by one of the windows, and when the Bird had handed me over to the Giant from whom you have been good enough to deliver me, and given the Fairy’s message, it departed. Who acts: We, Bird, you, message. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Pla
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 71

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We entered by one of the windows, and when the Bird had handed me over to the Giant from whom you have been good enough to deliver me, and given the Fairy’s message, it departed.

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**Who acts:** We, Bird, you, message · **What happens:** enter, hand over, be, deliver, give, depart · **To what, where:** me, message

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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 (We, Bird, you, message), 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:pg7277:38:71
# text = We entered by one of the windows, and when the Bird had handed me over to the Giant from whom you have been good enough to deliver me, and given the Fairy’s message, it departed.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | We |  |  |  |  | by one of the windows | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hand over** | past · perfect | the Bird | me |  |  |  | to the Giant | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to giant=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | enough, good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | participle | the Bird *not said here* | the Fairy's message |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
| 6 | **depart** | past | message |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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