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title: “You are not over and above mannerly,” answered the Fairy, without p… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are not over and above mannerly,” answered the Fairy, without putting herself in a passion. Who acts: You, Fairy. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 33

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“You are not over and above mannerly,” answered the Fairy, without putting herself in a passion.

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**Who acts:** You, Fairy · **What happens:** not be, be, answer, put · **To what, where:** fairy, passion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Fairy), 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:pg503:38:33
# text = “You are not over and above mannerly,” answered the Fairy, without putting herself in a passion.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mannerly	mannerly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | the Fairy *not said here* | fairy |  | a passion |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in passion=Destination |

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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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