--- title: She quite agreed with him, the Princess was in a bad way--‘But,’ sai… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She quite agreed with him, the Princess was in a bad way--‘But,’ said she, ‘if you can find the Rosy Mole, and give him to her she will recover.’ Who acts: Fairy, Princess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, Princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:39:7 # text = She quite agreed with him, the Princess was in a bad way--‘But,’ said she, ‘if you can find the Rosy Mole, and give him to her she will recover.’ 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 quite quite ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 agreed agree VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 But but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Rosy rosy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Mole mole NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 recover recover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Fairy | | | | | with Prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the Princess | | | a bad way | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | Fairy | the Rosy Mole | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Topic | | 5 | **give** | infinitive | Fairy *not said here* | | Prince | | | to Fairy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to she=Recipient | | 6 | **recover** | future | Fairy | a bad way *not said here* | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/8/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/39/)