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title: “No, no, madam” (cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears);… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, no, madam” (cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears); “you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but then you must go home with me to my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind.” Who a
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 105

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“No, no, madam” (cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears); “you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but then you must go home with me to my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind.”

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**Who acts:** madam, you · **What happens:** cry, not die, see, go, conceal, deceive · **To what, where:** poor clerk, tears, children, lodgings, Queen, young hind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madam, you), 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:pg503:10:105
# text = “No, no, madam” (cried the poor clerk of the kitchen, all in tears); “you shall not die, and yet you shall see your children again; but then you must go home with me to my lodgings, where I have concealed them, and I shall deceive the Queen once more, by giving her in your stead a young hind.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
42	home	home	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	lodgings	lodging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	52	advmod	_	_
50	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	acl:relcl	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
57	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	62	advmod	_	_
62	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	58	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
65	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	advcl	_	_
66	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	iobj	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
68	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	_
70	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	58	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | madam | the poor clerk of the kitchen |  | all tears |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | you | your children |  |  | yet; again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  | my lodgings | then | with madam; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lodging=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **conceal** *in a quote* | present · perfect | madam | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **deceive** *in a quote* | shall | madam | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | gerund | madam *not said here* | a young hind | queen | your stead |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient hind=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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