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title: At first nobody would hear of this arrangement, and her father and b… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 6

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At first nobody would hear of this arrangement, and her father and brothers, who loved her dearly, declared that nothing should make them let her go; but Beauty was firm.

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**Who acts:** father, nothing, brothers, her, Beauty · **What happens:** hear, love, declare, make, let, go · **To what, where:** nobody, dearly, brothers, her

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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 (father, nothing, brothers, her), 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:pg503:15:6
# text = At first nobody would hear of this arrangement, and her father and brothers, who loved her dearly, declared that nothing should make them let her go; but Beauty was firm.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
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	17	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	Beauty	Beauty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would |  |  |  | nobody |  | of this arrangement | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of arrangement=Stimulus |
| 2 | **love** | past | her father and brothers | her dearly |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dearly=Stimulus |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | her father and brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | should | nothing | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | Beauty |  |  |  |  | firm *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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