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title: Meanwhile, Queen Fiordelisa, disguised as a poor peasant girl, weari… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 65

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Meanwhile, Queen Fiordelisa, disguised as a poor peasant girl, wearing a great straw hat that concealed her face, and carrying an old sack over her shoulder, had set out upon her weary journey, and had travelled far, sometimes by sea and sometimes by land; sometimes on foot, and sometimes on horseback, but not knowing which way to go.

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**Who acts:** great straw hat, carrying, Turritella · **What happens:** disguise, wear, conceal, carry, set out, travell · **To what, where:** Queen, great straw hat, face, old sack, shoulder, foot

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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 (great straw hat, carrying, Turritella), 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:pg7277:4:65
# text = Meanwhile, Queen Fiordelisa, disguised as a poor peasant girl, wearing a great straw hat that concealed her face, and carrying an old sack over her shoulder, had set out upon her weary journey, and had travelled far, sometimes by sea and sometimes by land; sometimes on foot, and sometimes on horseback, but not knowing which way to go.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
4	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	csubj:pass	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	travelled	travell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
43	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	47	advmod	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	51	advmod	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
53	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	55	advmod	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	60	advmod	_	_
59	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
62	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
63	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
65	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	66	det	_	_
66	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
67	to	to	PART	TO	_	68	mark	_	_
68	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	66	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disguise** | participle |  | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  | as a poor peasant girl | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund |  | a great straw hat |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme |
| 3 | **conceal** | past | a great straw hat | Turritella's face |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund |  | a old sack |  | Turritella's shoulder |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |
| 5 | **set out** | past · perfect | carrying |  |  |  |  | upon Turritella's weary journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **travell** | past · perfect | carrying *not said here* |  |  | foot and horseback |  | by sea and land; far *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **know** | gerund | carrying *not said here* | which way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 8 | **go** | to-infinitive | carrying *not said here* | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **journey** |  | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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