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title: “Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to r… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to ruin us?” Who acts: Unhappy girl. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 145

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“Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to ruin us?”

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**Who acts:** Unhappy girl · **What happens:** cry, do, ruin · **To what, where:** Ali, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unhappy girl), 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:pg503:34:145
# text = “Unhappy girl!” cried Ali Baba and his son, “what have you done to ruin us?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Ali	Ali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	ruin	ruin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 | Unhappy girl | Ali and Ali's son |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ruin** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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