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title: As the ninth night drew near she became very unhappy, for she feared… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the ninth night drew near she became very unhappy, for she feared lest some terrible mischance should arise and ruin all. Who acts: thread, terrible mischance. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 38

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As the ninth night drew near she became very unhappy, for she feared lest some terrible mischance should arise and ruin all.

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**Who acts:** thread, terrible mischance · **What happens:** draw, become, fear, arise, ruin · **To what, where:** all · **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 (thread, terrible mischance), 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:pg503:26:38
# text = As the ninth night drew near she became very unhappy, for she feared lest some terrible mischance should arise and ruin all.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	ninth	ninth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mischance	mischance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | past | thread |  |  |  |  | unhappy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fear** | past | thread |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **arise** | should | some terrible mischance |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **ruin** | infinitive | some terrible mischance *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |

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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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