--- title: It was left to her to choose what form she would take, and because s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It was left to her to choose what form she would take, and because she loved yellow she transformed herself into a lovely bird with shining golden feathers such as no one had ever seen before. Who acts: Fairy. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/40/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Sylvain and Jocosa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/) / 40 # The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 40 It was left to her to choose what form she would take, and because she loved yellow she transformed herself into a lovely bird with shining golden feathers such as no one had ever seen before. **Who acts:** Fairy · **What happens:** leave, choose, take, love, transform, shine · **To what, where:** fortune, Fairy, golden feathers 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), 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:pg7277:9:40 # text = It was left to her to choose what form she would take, and because she loved yellow she transformed herself into a lovely bird with shining golden feathers such as no one had ever seen before. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 choose choose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 9 form form VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 18 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 transformed transform VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 26 with with SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 28 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 33 case _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 36 advmod _ _ 36 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 acl:relcl _ _ 37 before before ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past · passive | | fortune | Fairy | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to she=Recipient | | 2 | **choose** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | would · present | Fairy | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 4 | **love** | past | Fairy | | | | | yellow *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **transform** | past | Fairy | Fairy | | | | into a lovely bird *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Patient into bird=Result | | 6 | **shine** | gerund | Fairy *not said here* | golden feathers | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | | 7 | **see** | past · perfect | | golden feathers *not said here* | | | ever | such no one; before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/41/) - ↑ back to [Sylvain and Jocosa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/)