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title: Fiordelisa wanted to reproach him for his faithlessness, and could n… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiordelisa wanted to reproach him for his faithlessness, and could not imagine a better way than this. Who acts: Fiordelisa. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 15

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Fiordelisa wanted to reproach him for his faithlessness, and could not imagine a better way than this.

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**Who acts:** Fiordelisa · **What happens:** want, reproach, not imagine · **To what, where:** King, better way

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fiordelisa), 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:pg7277:5:15
# text = Fiordelisa wanted to reproach him for his faithlessness, and could not imagine a better way than this.
1	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	reproach	reproach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	faithlessness	faithlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **reproach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fiordelisa *not said here* | King |  |  |  | for King's faithlessness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for faithlessness=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **imagine** | could | Fiordelisa *not said here* | a better way |  |  |  | than this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme |

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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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