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title: “Say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without fear,” he replied. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without fear,” he replied. Who acts: 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 89

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“Say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without fear,” he replied.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, reply · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg503:15:89
# text = “Say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ without fear,” he replied.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | without fear | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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