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title: Ah! dear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes whic… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah! dear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day.” Who acts: dear Miss Charlotte, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 69

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Ah! dear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day.”

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**Who acts:** dear Miss Charlotte, you · **What happens:** lend, wear · **To what, where:** yellow suit, me, clothes

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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 (dear Miss Charlotte, 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:pg503:11:69
# text = Ah! dear Miss Charlotte, do lend me your yellow suit of clothes which you wear every day.”
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Charlotte	Charlotte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | infinitive · do-support | dear Miss Charlotte | your yellow suit of clothes | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient suit=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | you | clothes |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |

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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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