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title: Strangely enough, it gave him only a slight prick for a trifling fau… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Strangely enough, it gave him only a slight prick for a trifling fault, but when he was really naughty it made his finger actually bleed. Who acts: ring, prince. 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 54

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Strangely enough, it gave him only a slight prick for a trifling fault, but when he was really naughty it made his finger actually bleed.

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**Who acts:** ring, prince · **What happens:** give, be, make, bleed · **To what, where:** slight prick, prince, finger

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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 (ring, prince), 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:pg503:39:54
# text = Strangely enough, it gave him only a slight prick for a trifling fault, but when he was really naughty it made his finger actually bleed.
1	Strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prick	prick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	trifling	trifling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	really	really	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	bleed	bleed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | ring | a slight prick for a trifling fault | prince |  |  | strangely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | past | ring | prince's finger |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material finger=Product |
| 4 | **bleed** | infinitive | ring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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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