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title: And, above all, do not desert me until you have saved me from my cru… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, above all, do not desert me until you have saved me from my cruel misery.” Who acts: all, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 58

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And, above all, do not desert me until you have saved me from my cruel misery.”

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**Who acts:** all, you · **What happens:** not desert, save · **To what, where:** me, cruel misery

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, 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:pg503:15:58
# text = And, above all, do not desert me until you have saved me from my cruel misery.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	desert	desert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **desert** | infinitive · do-support | all | me |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme i=Source |
| 2 | **save** | present · perfect | you | me |  | my cruel misery |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from misery=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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