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title: This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to fl… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers. Who acts: This, I. 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 71

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This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers.

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**Who acts:** This, I · **What happens:** show, not listen · **To what, where:** me

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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 (This, I), 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:pg503:3:71
# text = This just shows me how sensible I have been in never listening to flatterers.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flatterers	flatterer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | This |  | me |  |  | sensible *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **listen** | present · perfect · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | to flatterers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to flatterer=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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