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title: “You are very kind to trouble yourself about this little girl; if I… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are very kind to trouble yourself about this little girl; if I were you I would soon make her obey me. Who acts: You, evil adviser, girl. 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 67

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“You are very kind to trouble yourself about this little girl; if I were you I would soon make her obey me.

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**Who acts:** You, evil adviser, girl · **What happens:** be, make, obey · **To what, where:** you, girl, evil adviser

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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, evil adviser, 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:pg503:39:67
# text = “You are very kind to trouble yourself about this little girl; if I were you I would soon make her obey me.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	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	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	nmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | this evil adviser *= adviser* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | would | you | girl |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **obey** *in a quote* | infinitive | girl *not said here* | this evil adviser *= adviser* |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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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