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title: She had been as sad as anyone when misfortune overtook her father, b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had been as sad as anyone when misfortune overtook her father, but, soon recovering her natural gaiety, she set to work to make the best of things, to amuse her father and brothers as well as she could, and to try to persuade her sisters to join her in dancing and singing. Who acts: youngest, mi
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 13

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She had been as sad as anyone when misfortune overtook her father, but, soon recovering her natural gaiety, she set to work to make the best of things, to amuse her father and brothers as well as she could, and to try to persuade her sisters to join her in dancing and singing.

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**Who acts:** youngest, misfortune, sisters · **What happens:** be, overtake, recover, set, work, make · **To what, where:** father, natural gaiety, best things, sisters, youngest, dancing

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, misfortune, sisters), 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:pg503:14:13
# text = She had been as sad as anyone when misfortune overtook her father, but, soon recovering her natural gaiety, she set to work to make the best of things, to amuse her father and brothers as well as she could, and to try to persuade her sisters to join her in dancing and singing.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gaiety	gaiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	43	cc	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
54	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | youngest *= young* |  |  |  |  | as anyone; sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **overtake** | past | misfortune | youngest's father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recover** | gerund | youngest *= young* *not said here* | youngest's natural gaiety |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaiety=Theme |
| 4 | **set** | past | youngest *= young* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | youngest *= young* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | youngest *= young* *not said here* | the best things |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product |
| 7 | **amuse** | to-infinitive | youngest *= young* *not said here* | youngest's father and brothers |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer |
| 8 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 9 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | youngest's sisters |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Patient clause=Result |
| 10 | **join** | to-infinitive | youngest's sisters *not said here* | youngest *= young* |  | dancing |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 11 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | youngest's sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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