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title: Don’t imagine that you are the daughter of the poor laborer who brou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Don’t imagine that you are the daughter of the poor laborer who brought you up; your mother was a queen who had six girls already, and the King threatened that unless she had a son who could inherit his kingdom she should have her head cut off. Who acts: you, poor laborer, mother, queen. A sentence 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 64

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Don’t imagine that you are the daughter of the poor laborer who brought you up; your mother was a queen who had six girls already, and the King threatened that unless she had a son who could inherit his kingdom she should have her head cut off.

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**Who acts:** you, poor laborer, mother, queen, King, son · **What happens:** not imagine, be, bring up, have, threaten, inherit · **To what, where:** daughter, you, queen, six girls, son, kingdom

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, poor laborer, mother, queen), 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:pg503:22:64
# text = Don’t imagine that you are the daughter of the poor laborer who brought you up; your mother was a queen who had six girls already, and the King threatened that unless she had a son who could inherit his kingdom she should have her head cut off.
1	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	laborer	laborer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
34	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	inherit	inherit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
47	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
50	off	off	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **imagine** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** | present | you | the daughter |  |  |  | of the poor laborer | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring up** | past | the poor laborer | you |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | your mother | a queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | a queen | six girls |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 6 | **threaten** | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | mother | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 8 | **inherit** | could | a son | King's kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | should | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **cut off** | past | mother's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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