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title: “Come out and meet the valiant Charming Who finds you not at all ala… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Come out and meet the valiant Charming Who finds you not at all alarming; Although he is not very tall, He’s big enough to make you fall.” Who acts: you, valiant Charming, Pray. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 128

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“Come out and meet the valiant Charming Who finds you not at all alarming; Although he is not very tall, He’s big enough to make you fall.”

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**Who acts:** you, valiant Charming, Pray · **What happens:** come out, meet, not find, not be, make, fall · **To what, where:** valiant Charming, you

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, valiant Charming, Pray), 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:pg503:28:128
# text = “Come out and meet the valiant Charming Who finds you not at all alarming; Although he is not very tall, He’s big enough to make you fall.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	alarming	alarming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the valiant Charming |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charming=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | present | the valiant Charming | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Pray |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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