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description: The White Bear gave her a silver bell, and told her that when she needed anything she had but to ring this bell, and what she wanted would appear. Who acts: White Bear, door. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 19

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The White Bear gave her a silver bell, and told her that when she needed anything she had but to ring this bell, and what she wanted would appear.

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**Who acts:** White Bear, door · **What happens:** give, tell, need, have, ring, want · **To what, where:** silver bell, door, anything, bell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (White Bear, door), 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:pg503:4:19
# text = The White Bear gave her a silver bell, and told her that when she needed anything she had but to ring this bell, and what she wanted would appear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the White Bear | a silver bell | door |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bell=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the White Bear *not said here* |  | door |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | past | door | anything |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ring** | to-infinitive | door *not said here* | this bell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 6 | **want** | past | door |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **appear** *not said to happen* | would | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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