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title: “‘Tis you; pass under, Princess fair: If your mother only knew, Her… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Tis you; pass under, Princess fair: If your mother only knew, Her heart would surely break in two.” Who acts: Tis, mother, heart. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 44

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“‘Tis you; pass under, Princess fair: If your mother only knew, Her heart would surely break in two.”

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**Who acts:** Tis, mother, heart · **What happens:** pass, know, break · **To what, where:** Princess fair, two

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, mother, heart), 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:pg503:37:44
# text = “‘Tis you; pass under, Princess fair: If your mother only knew, Her heart would surely break in two.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	pass	pass	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Princess	princess	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tis  you |  |  | Princess fair |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under fair=Location |
| 2 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | your mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | would | tis's heart |  |  | two |  | surely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location |

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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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