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title: “You shall not wait another minute, you are so polite, and in spite… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You shall not wait another minute, you are so polite, and in spite of the enormous size of your nose you are really very agreeable.” Who acts: You. 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 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, sentence 62

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“You shall not wait another minute, you are so polite, and in spite of the enormous size of your nose you are really very agreeable.”

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not wait, be, spite · **To what, where:** spite, enormous size

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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 (You), 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:pg503:3:62
# text = “You shall not wait another minute, you are so polite, and in spite of the enormous size of your nose you are really very agreeable.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	really	really	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wait** *in a quote* | shall | You |  |  |  | minute |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | spite of the enormous size of your nose |  | agreeable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **spite** *in a quote* |  |  | the enormous size of your nose |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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