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title: The Fowler with great joy ran home to his wife, who speedily made a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fowler with great joy ran home to his wife, who speedily made a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird. Who acts: Fowler, wife, Yellow Bird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 51

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The Fowler with great joy ran home to his wife, who speedily made a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird.

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**Who acts:** Fowler, wife, Yellow Bird · **What happens:** run, make, stew · **To what, where:** savoury stew

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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 (Fowler, wife, Yellow Bird), 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:pg7277:9:51
# text = The Fowler with great joy ran home to his wife, who speedily made a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fowler	fowler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **run** | past | the Fowler with great joy |  |  |  |  | to Fowler's wife *result*; home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wife=Result |
| 2 | **make** | past | Fowler's wife | a savoury stew of the Yellow Bird |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Product |
| 3 | **stew** |  | the Yellow Bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom stew «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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