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title: “I laugh at your powerlessness and anger, and I intend to punish you… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I laugh at your powerlessness and anger, and I intend to punish your pride by letting you fall into the hands of your own subjects.” Who acts: voice, you, your. 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 97

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“I laugh at your powerlessness and anger, and I intend to punish your pride by letting you fall into the hands of your own subjects.”

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**Who acts:** voice, you, your · **What happens:** laugh, intend, punish, let, fall, pride · **To what, where:** powerlessness, pride, you, hands

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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 (voice, you, your), 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:pg503:39:97
# text = “I laugh at your powerlessness and anger, and I intend to punish your pride by letting you fall into the hands of your own subjects.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	powerlessness	powerlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	intend	intend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	punish	punish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** *in a quote* | present | a voice *= voice* |  |  | your powerlessness and anger |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **intend** *in a quote* | present | a voice *= voice* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **punish** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a voice *= voice* *not said here* | your pride |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Patient |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | gerund | a voice *= voice* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the hands of your own subjects *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into hand=Result |
| 6 | **pride** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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