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title: The old wizard has not told thee wrong, neither have the birds decei… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old wizard has not told thee wrong, neither have the birds deceived thee; hasten and dry the maiden’s tears.” Who acts: birds. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 106

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The old wizard has not told thee wrong, neither have the birds deceived thee; hasten and dry the maiden’s tears.”

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** not tell, have, deceive, hasten, dry · **To what, where:** old wizard, thee, tears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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:pg503:26:106
# text = The old wizard has not told thee wrong, neither have the birds deceived thee; hasten and dry the maiden’s tears.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	iobj	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc:preconj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | the old wizard | thee |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deceive** | past | the birds | thee |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient |
| 4 | **hasten** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **dry** | infinitive |  | the maiden's tears |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |

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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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