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title: Fiordelisa clapped her hands and danced for joy when she saw this tr… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiordelisa clapped her hands and danced for joy when she saw this triumph of magic art, and as soon as it was evening, went to a shady garden-path down which she knew Turritella would pass, and then she made the mice galop, and the tiny people show off their tricks, and sure enough Turritella came, 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 26

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Fiordelisa clapped her hands and danced for joy when she saw this triumph of magic art, and as soon as it was evening, went to a shady garden-path down which she knew Turritella would pass, and then she made the mice galop, and the tiny people show off their tricks, and sure enough Turritella came, and the moment she saw it all cried:

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**Who acts:** Fiordelisa, carriage, Turritella, mice, tiny people, moment · **What happens:** clap, dance, see, be, go down, know · **To what, where:** hands, triumph, tricks, moment · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, carriage, Turritella, mice), 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:pg7277:5:26
# text = Fiordelisa clapped her hands and danced for joy when she saw this triumph of magic art, and as soon as it was evening, went to a shady garden-path down which she knew Turritella would pass, and then she made the mice galop, and the tiny people show off their tricks, and sure enough Turritella came, and the moment she saw it all cried:
1	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	shady	shady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obj	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
37	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	galop	galop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
53	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
54	off	off	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	advcl	_	_
60	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
61	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
62	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	71	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nsubj	_	_
67	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	68	nsubj	_	_
68	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	acl:relcl	_	_
69	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
70	all	all	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
71	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	71	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clap** | past | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa's hands |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | past | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | Fiordelisa | this triumph of magic art |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer triumph=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | carriage |  |  |  | as evening |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go down** | past | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a shady garden path; soon *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **know** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **pass** | would | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | past | Turritella |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **galop** | present | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **show off** | present | the tiny people | mice's tricks |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trick=Recipient |
| 11 | **come** | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **see** | past | Turritella | the moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moment=Stimulus |
| 13 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the moment |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 14 | **triumph** |  | magic art |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 15 | **trick** |  | mice *= mouse* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «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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