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title: “You will hardly believe, sire, what Charming has the audacity to sa… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You will hardly believe, sire, what Charming has the audacity to say--that if _he_ had been sent to the Princess Goldilocks she would certainly have come back with him. Who acts: You, Charming. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 18

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“You will hardly believe, sire, what Charming has the audacity to say--that if \_he\_ had been sent to the Princess Goldilocks she would certainly have come back with him.

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**Who acts:** You, Charming · **What happens:** believe, have, say, send, come back · **To what, where:** sire, Princess Goldilocks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Charming), 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:pg503:28:18
# text = “You will hardly believe, sire, what Charming has the audacity to say--that if _he_ had been sent to the Princess Goldilocks she would certainly have come back with him.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
10	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	audacity	audacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	_	_	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Goldilocks	Goldilocks	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	parataxis	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** *in a quote* | future | You | sire |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sire=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Charming | sire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Charming *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive |  |  | the Princess Goldilocks |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to goldilocks=Destination |
| 5 | **come back** *in a quote* | would · perfect | Charming |  |  |  |  | with king; certainly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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