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title: Once upon a time a Fairy, who had somehow or other got into mischief… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once upon a time a Fairy, who had somehow or other got into mischief, was condemned by the High Court of Fairyland to live for several years under the form of some creature, and at the moment of resuming her natural appearance once again to make the fortune of two men. Who acts: Fairy, High Court. A
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 39

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Once upon a time a Fairy, who had somehow or other got into mischief, was condemned by the High Court of Fairyland to live for several years under the form of some creature, and at the moment of resuming her natural appearance once again to make the fortune of two men.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, High Court · **What happens:** have, get, condemn, live, resume, make · **To what, where:** mischief, form, natural appearance, fortune, creature

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, High Court), 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:pg7277:9:39
# text = Once upon a time a Fairy, who had somehow or other got into mischief, was condemned by the High Court of Fairyland to live for several years under the form of some creature, and at the moment of resuming her natural appearance once again to make the fortune of two men.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
2	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	condemned	condemn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Fairyland	Fairyland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
41	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	resuming	resume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
43	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
44	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	47	advmod	_	_
47	again	again	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | a Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | participle | a Fairy *not said here* |  |  | mischief |  | somehow *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into mischief=Destination |
| 3 | **condemn** | past · passive | the High Court of Fairyland |  |  |  |  |  | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **live** | to-infinitive | the High Court of Fairyland *not said here* |  |  | the form of some creature | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under form=Location |
| 5 | **resume** | gerund | the High Court of Fairyland *not said here* | Fairy's natural appearance |  |  | again; moment |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Eventuality |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | the High Court of Fairyland *not said here* | the fortune of two men |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fortune=Product |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | some creature |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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