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title: “‘Ah! my dear madam,’ cried the Queen, ‘is there nothing else that y… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Ah! my dear madam,’ cried the Queen, ‘is there nothing else that you will take for the fruit? Who acts: dear madam, nothing, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 70

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“‘Ah! my dear madam,’ cried the Queen, ‘is there nothing else that you will take for the fruit?

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**Who acts:** dear madam, nothing, you · **What happens:** cry, be, take · **To what, where:** Queen

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (dear madam, nothing, 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:pg503:24:70
# text = “‘Ah! my dear madam,’ cried the Queen, ‘is there nothing else that you will take for the fruit?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | my dear madam | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | for the fruit | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fruit=Beneficiary |

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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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