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title: “How can I ever thank you enough, charming girl, for having restored… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “How can I ever thank you enough, charming girl, for having restored my dear son to his natural form?” Who acts: Queen, consent. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 86

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“How can I ever thank you enough, charming girl, for having restored my dear son to his natural form?”

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**Who acts:** Queen, consent · **What happens:** thank, charm, restore, form · **To what, where:** you, girl, dear son, natural form

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, consent), 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:pg503:16:86
# text = “How can I ever thank you enough, charming girl, for having restored my dear son to his natural form?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
6	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | can | the Queen *= queen* |  | you |  | ever | enough *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **charm** *in a quote* | gerund | the Queen *= queen* *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus girl=Experiencer |
| 3 | **restore** *in a quote* | gerund · perfect |  | my dear son | consent's natural form |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to form=Recipient |
| 4 | **form** *in a quote* |  | consent |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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