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title: “Oh! it doesn’t _lack_ anything,” replied the Fairy. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh! it doesn’t _lack_ anything,” replied the Fairy. Who acts: nose, lack. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 44

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“Oh! it doesn’t \_lack\_ anything,” replied the Fairy.

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**Who acts:** nose, lack · **What happens:** not lack, reply · **To what, where:** Fairy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nose, lack), 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:pg503:3:44
# text = “Oh! it doesn’t _lack_ anything,” replied the Fairy.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lack	lack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **lack** *in a quote* | present · do-support | nose |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: express* | past | lack | the Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic |

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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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