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title: “Don’t touch it, my poor little dog--that house is the palace of ple… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t touch it, my poor little dog--that house is the palace of pleasure, and everything that comes out of it is poisoned!” Who acts: you, house. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 142

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“Don’t touch it, my poor little dog--that house is the palace of pleasure, and everything that comes out of it is poisoned!”

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**Who acts:** you, house · **What happens:** not touch, be, come out, poison · **To what, where:** cry, palace, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, house), 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:pg503:39:142
# text = “Don’t touch it, my poor little dog--that house is the palace of pleasure, and everything that comes out of it is poisoned!”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	n't	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | cry |  |  |  | my poor little dog *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that house | the palace |  |  |  | of pleasure | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** *in a quote* | present |  | cry |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
| 4 | **poison** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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