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title: When Turritella heard what had happened she came running to the King… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Turritella heard what had happened she came running to the King, and when she saw Fiordelisa with him she was terribly angry, but before she could say a word the Enchanter and the Fairy changed her into a big brown owl, and she floated away out of one of the palace windows, hooting dismally. Wh
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 71

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When Turritella heard what had happened she came running to the King, and when she saw Fiordelisa with him she was terribly angry, but before she could say a word the Enchanter and the Fairy changed her into a big brown owl, and she floated away out of one of the palace windows, hooting dismally.

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**Who acts:** Turritella, Fiordelisa, Enchanter · **What happens:** hear, happen, come, run, see, be · **To what, where:** Fiordelisa, word, big brown owl · **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 (Turritella, Fiordelisa, Enchanter), 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:pg7277:5:71
# text = When Turritella heard what had happened she came running to the King, and when she saw Fiordelisa with him she was terribly angry, but before she could say a word the Enchanter and the Fairy changed her into a big brown owl, and she floated away out of one of the palace windows, hooting dismally.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
49	away	away	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	out	out	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
58	hooting	hoot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
59	dismally	dismally	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | Turritella *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the King *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result |
| 5 | **see** | past | Turritella | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | with King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fiordelisa=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | angry, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | Fiordelisa | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 8 | **change** | past | the Enchanter and the Fairy | Fiordelisa |  |  |  | into a big brown owl *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into owl=Result |
| 9 | **float away** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | out one of the palace windows; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out one=Trajectory |
| 10 | **hoot** | gerund | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dismally *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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