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title: “And I,” said the youngest, “shall have my usual petticoat; but then… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “And I,” said the youngest, “shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered manteau, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world.” Who acts: I, diamond stomacher. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 15

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“And I,” said the youngest, “shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered manteau, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world.”

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**Who acts:** I, diamond stomacher · **What happens:** say, have, make, put, flower, be · **To what, where:** usual petticoat, amends, flowered manteau, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, diamond stomacher), 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:pg503:11:15
# text = “And I,” said the youngest, “shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered manteau, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
22	amends	amend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
31	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	flowered	flower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	manteau	manteau	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	diamond	diamond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	stomacher	stomacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
41	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
43	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	49	advmod	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	cop	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	48	advmod	_	_
48	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | I *not said here* | my usual petticoat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petticoat=Patient |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | amends |  |  | then | for that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent amend=Product for that=Asset |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  | my flowered manteau |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on manteau=Destination |
| 5 | **flower** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my diamond stomacher |  |  | the world |  | from the ordinary one; far *property* | tree rules |

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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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