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title: And the Fairy took a great delight in their innocent enjoyment of th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Fairy took a great delight in their innocent enjoyment of the cakes and sweetmeats she gave them nearly every day. Who acts: Fairy, Sylvain. 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 7

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And the Fairy took a great delight in their innocent enjoyment of the cakes and sweetmeats she gave them nearly every day.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, Sylvain · **What happens:** take, give, enjoy · **To what, where:** great delight, innocent enjoyment, cakes, Sylvain

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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, Sylvain), 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:pg7277:9:7
# text = And the Fairy took a great delight in their innocent enjoyment of the cakes and sweetmeats she gave them nearly every day.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Fairy | a great delight |  | Sylvain's innocent enjoyment of the cakes and sweetmeats |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in enjoyment=Location |
| 2 | **give** | past | Fairy | the cakes and sweetmeats *not said here* | Sylvain |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **enjoy** |  | Sylvain | the cakes and sweetmeats |  |  |  |  | nom enjoyment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent 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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