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title: “Approach, lovely Princess,” he cried; “have no fear of such gentle… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Approach, lovely Princess,” he cried; “have no fear of such gentle and peaceable animals as we are.” Who acts: Approach, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 78

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“Approach, lovely Princess,” he cried; “have no fear of such gentle and peaceable animals as we are.”

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**Who acts:** Approach, we · **What happens:** cry, have, be, fear · **To what, where:** fear, such gentle animals · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Approach, we), 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:pg503:30:78
# text = “Approach, lovely Princess,” he cried; “have no fear of such gentle and peaceable animals as we are.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Approach |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Approach *not said here* | no fear of such gentle animals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fear** *in a quote* |  |  | such gentle animals |  |  |  |  | nom fear «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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