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title: Her delight was complete when her brother (who had killed the Magici… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 83

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Her delight was complete when her brother (who had killed the Magician under the form of a bull) was seen coming from the forest in his proper shape, and that very day, according to her promise, she gave her hand in marriage to the happy young tailor.

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**Who acts:** delight, brother, couple · **What happens:** be, kill, see, come, accord, give · **To what, where:** brother, form, forest, hand, happy young tailor, marriage

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delight, brother, couple), 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:pg7277:45:83
# text = Her delight was complete when her brother (who had killed the Magician under the form of a bull) was seen coming from the forest in his proper shape, and that very day, according to her promise, she gave her hand in marriage to the happy young tailor.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	very	very	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	case	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | couple's delight |  |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | couple's brother |  | the form of a bull |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer magician=Result |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | couple's brother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | couple's brother *not said here* |  |  | the forest in brother's proper shape |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | past | couple | couple's hand | the happy young tailor | marriage |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to tailor=Recipient |
| 7 | **delight** |  | couple |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | a bull |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **promise** |  | couple |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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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