--- title: And then he told the whole story, accusing Fiordelisa of having betr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And then he told the whole story, accusing Fiordelisa of having betrayed the secret of his visits to make her peace with the Queen, and indeed saying a great many hard things about her fickleness and her deceitful beauty, and so on. Who acts: Charming, Fiordelisa, Princess. A sentence of «The Green --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/) / 35 # The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 35 And then he told the whole story, accusing Fiordelisa of having betrayed the secret of his visits to make her peace with the Queen, and indeed saying a great many hard things about her fickleness and her deceitful beauty, and so on. **Who acts:** Charming, Fiordelisa, Princess · **What happens:** tell, accuse, betray, make, say, visit · **To what, where:** whole story, secret, peace, great many hard things · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Charming, Fiordelisa, 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:pg7277:4:35 # text = And then he told the whole story, accusing Fiordelisa of having betrayed the secret of his visits to make her peace with the Queen, and indeed saying a great many hard things about her fickleness and her deceitful beauty, and so on. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 accusing accuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 10 Fiordelisa Fiordelisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 of of SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux _ _ 13 betrayed betray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 32 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 fickleness fickleness NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 deceitful deceitful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Charming | the whole story | | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | | 2 | **accuse** | gerund | Charming *not said here* | | | | | | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **betray** | gerund · perfect | Fiordelisa | the secret of Charming's visits | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa *not said here* | Princess's peace | | | | with the Queen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Charming *not said here* | a great many hard things | | | | about Princess's fickleness and Princess's deceitful beauty; indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 6 | **visit** | | Charming | | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **pacify** | | Princess | | | | | | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/36/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/)