--- title: Turritella, who really loved King Charming as much as she could love… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Turritella, who really loved King Charming as much as she could love anybody, and was always delighted to get a chance of talking to him, now showed him the bracelets, asking how much he considered them worth. Who acts: Turritella, chance, Charming. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turritella, chance, Charming), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:5:4 # text = Turritella, who really loved King Charming as much as she could love anybody, and was always delighted to get a chance of talking to him, now showed him the bracelets, asking how much he considered them worth. 1 Turritella Turritella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Charming Charming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl _ _ 14 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 19 advmod _ _ 19 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bracelets bracelet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 36 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 37 advmod _ _ 37 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obj _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 considered consider VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 worth worth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | Turritella | Charming King | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **love** | could | Turritella | anybody | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | past | Turritella *not said here* | | | | | always, delighted *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Turritella *not said here* | a chance | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus | | 5 | **talk** | gerund | a chance *not said here* | | Charming | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **show** | past | Turritella *not said here* | the bracelets | Charming | | now | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bracelet=Topic | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | Turritella *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **consider** | past | Charming | much | | | | worth *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent much=Theme they=Attribute | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/5/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Bird, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/5/)