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title: When night came Fiordelisa said all the loving words she could think… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When night came Fiordelisa said all the loving words she could think of, but alas! with no better success than before, for the King slept heavily after his draught. Who acts: night, Fiordelisa, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 33

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When night came Fiordelisa said all the loving words she could think of, but alas! with no better success than before, for the King slept heavily after his draught.

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**Who acts:** night, Fiordelisa, King · **What happens:** come, say, think, sleep · **To what, where:** loving words · **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 (night, Fiordelisa, King), 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:pg7277:5:33
# text = When night came Fiordelisa said all the loving words she could think of, but alas! with no better success than before, for the King slept heavily after his draught.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
4	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
20	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	draught	draught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  | with no better success | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fiordelisa | all loving words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | could | Fiordelisa | all loving words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot word=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | the King |  |  |  | after King's draught | heavily *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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