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title: “You are very ready with excuses and flattery,” he cried; “but that… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are very ready with excuses and flattery,” he cried; “but that will not save you from the death you deserve.” Who acts: You, anger, that. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 59

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“You are very ready with excuses and flattery,” he cried; “but that will not save you from the death you deserve.”

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**Who acts:** You, anger, that · **What happens:** be, cry, not save, deserve · **To what, where:** you, death · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, anger, that), 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:pg503:14:59
# text = “You are very ready with excuses and flattery,” he cried; “but that will not save you from the death you deserve.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	excuses	excuse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	flattery	flattery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | with excuses and flattery; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | anger |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **save** *in a quote* | future | that |  | you | the death |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from death=Source |
| 4 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | you | the death *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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