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title: He recognized them in his turn and greeted them joyfully, but when t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He recognized them in his turn and greeted them joyfully, but when they turned afterwards to look for the Rosy Mole, the Chaffinch, and the Trotting-Mouse, they had vanished, and in their places stood a lovely lady whom they did not know, the Black Bird, and the Green Giant. Who acts: voice, miracle
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 20

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He recognized them in his turn and greeted them joyfully, but when they turned afterwards to look for the Rosy Mole, the Chaffinch, and the Trotting-Mouse, they had vanished, and in their places stood a lovely lady whom they did not know, the Black Bird, and the Green Giant.

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**Who acts:** voice, miracles, Trotting Mouse · **What happens:** recognize, greet, turn, look, vanish, stand · **To what, where:** miracles, turn, lovely lady, places

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, miracles, Trotting Mouse), 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:pg7277:39:20
# text = He recognized them in his turn and greeted them joyfully, but when they turned afterwards to look for the Rosy Mole, the Chaffinch, and the Trotting-Mouse, they had vanished, and in their places stood a lovely lady whom they did not know, the Black Bird, and the Green Giant.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Mole	Mole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Chaffinch	Chaffinch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	Trotting	trotting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
41	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
45	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	obj	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognize** | past | voice | miracles *= miracle* |  | voice's turn |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 2 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | voice *not said here* |  | miracles *= miracle* |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | past | miracles *= miracle* |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | miracles *= miracle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Rosy Mole and the Chaffinch | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mole=Theme |
| 5 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the Trotting Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **stand** | past |  | a lovely lady |  | miracles's places |  | the Black Bird *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme in place=Destination |
| 7 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | miracles *= miracle* | a lovely lady |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |

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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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