--- title: When the time of her punishment was at an end the beautiful yellow b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the time of her punishment was at an end the beautiful yellow bird flew to Bagdad, and let herself be caught by a Fowler at the precise moment when Badi-al-Zaman was walking up and down outside his magnificent summer palace. Who acts: time, end, Fairy, Badi. 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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 (time, end, Fairy, Badi), 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:pg7277:9:41 # text = When the time of her punishment was at an end the beautiful yellow bird flew to Bagdad, and let herself be caught by a Fowler at the precise moment when Badi-al-Zaman was walking up and down outside his magnificent summer palace. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 xcomp _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Fowler fowler NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 precise precise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 31 when when SCONJ WRB _ 38 mark _ _ 32 Badi Badi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 al Al PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Zaman Zaman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 flat _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 39 up up ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 down down ADV RB _ 39 conj _ _ 42 outside outside ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 44 magnificent magnificent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the time of Fairy's punishment | | | | at a end | | tree rules | | 2 | **fly** | past | a end | | Bagdad | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bagdad=Result | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | a end *not said here* | Fairy | | | moment | by a Fowler | tree rules | | 4 | **catch** | infinitive · passive | Fairy *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **walk** | past · progressive | Badi | | | Bird's magnificent summer palace | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside palace=Trajectory | | 6 | **punish** | | Fairy | | | | | | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/42/) - ↑ back to [Sylvain and Jocosa](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/9/)