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title: “‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never underst… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never understood me until now? Who acts: ‘, fault, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 24

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“‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never understood me until now?

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**Who acts:** ‘, fault, you · **What happens:** be, answer, not understand, fault · **To what, where:** fault · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, fault, 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:pg503:31:24
# text = “‘And whose fault is it,’ she answered, ‘that you have never understood me until now?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	until	until	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | ‘ and ‘ and ‘'s fault's fault | fault |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | fault |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **understand** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | fault |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fault** *in a quote* |  | ‘ and ‘ and fault's fault |  |  |  |  |  | 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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