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title: “Do not be unhappy, dear father, but get a doll made, exactly like m… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do not be unhappy, dear father, but get a doll made, exactly like me, with a string attached to its head, which I can pull for ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’” Who acts: you, string. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 88

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“Do not be unhappy, dear father, but get a doll made, exactly like me, with a string attached to its head, which I can pull for ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’”

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**Who acts:** you, string · **What happens:** not be, get, make, attach, pull · **To what, where:** doll, string

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, string), 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:pg2435:38:88
# text = “Do not be unhappy, dear father, but get a doll made, exactly like me, with a string attached to its head, which I can pull for ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
23	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a doll |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doll=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | participle |  | a doll *not said here* |  |  |  | like the king *= king* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **attach** *in a quote* | participle |  | a string *not said here* |  |  |  | to string's head | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to head=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **pull** *in a quote* | can | a string |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yes=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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