--- title: In the meantime Fiordelisa, quite in despair, sat at her window day… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime Fiordelisa, quite in despair, sat at her window day and night calling her dear Blue Bird in vain, and imagining over and over again all the terrible things that could have happened to him, until she grew quite pale and thin. Who acts: terrible things, Bird. 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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 (terrible things, Bird), 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:pg7277:4:43 # text = In the meantime Fiordelisa, quite in despair, sat at her window day and night calling her dear Blue Bird in vain, and imagining over and over again all the terrible things that could have happened to him, until she grew quite pale and thin. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 Fiordelisa Fiordelisa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 19 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 imagining imagine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 conj _ _ 27 over over ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 over over ADV RB _ 27 conj _ _ 30 again again ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 36 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 38 aux _ _ 38 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 until until SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 45 quite quite ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 xcomp _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | | | | the meantime | day | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location | | 2 | **call** | gerund | | | Princess's dear Blue Bird | vain | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient | | 3 | **imagine** | gerund | | all terrible things | | | again | over *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | | 4 | **happen** | could · perfect | all terrible things | | Fiordelisa | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **grow** | past | Bird | | | | | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/44/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/4/)