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title: People of that sort praise us to our faces without shame, and hide o… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: People of that sort praise us to our faces without shame, and hide our faults or change them into virtues. Who acts: People, our. 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 72

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People of that sort praise us to our faces without shame, and hide our faults or change them into virtues.

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**Who acts:** People, our · **What happens:** praise, hide, change, fault · **To what, where:** us, faults, virtues

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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 (People, our), 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:pg503:3:72
# text = People of that sort praise us to our faces without shame, and hide our faults or change them into virtues.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	praise	praise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | infinitive | People of that sort | us |  |  |  | to our faces; without shame | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent we=Theme to face=be' |
| 2 | **hide** | present |  | our faults |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | infinitive |  | faults *= fault* |  |  |  | into virtues *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into virtue=Result |
| 4 | **fault** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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