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title: Nobody; doubted but the Fairy gave herein a very extraordinary sampl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nobody; doubted but the Fairy gave herein a very extraordinary sample of her art, that the Princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people. Who acts: Nobody, Fairy, beast. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, sentence 42

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Nobody; doubted but the Fairy gave herein a very extraordinary sample of her art, that the Princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people.

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**Who acts:** Nobody, Fairy, beast · **What happens:** doubt, give, continue, sleep, have, fear · **To what, where:** Princess, extraordinary sample, nothing, art

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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 (Nobody, Fairy, beast), 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:pg503:10:42
# text = Nobody; doubted but the Fairy gave herein a very extraordinary sample of her art, that the Princess, while she continued sleeping, might have nothing to fear from any curious people.
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	doubted	doubt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	herein	herein	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sample	sample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
33	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doubt** | participle | Nobody | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Fairy | a extraordinary sample of beast's art |  |  |  | herein *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sample=Theme |
| 3 | **continue** | past | beast |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **sleep** | gerund | beast *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** | might | beast *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 6 | **fear** | to-infinitive | beast *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  | from any curious people | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **sample** |  |  | beast's art |  |  |  |  | nom sample «cognition transitive»: 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 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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