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title: “I am so happy,” Bellissima answered: “do leave me in peace, madam. — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am so happy,” Bellissima answered: “do leave me in peace, madam. Who acts: Bellissima. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 21

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“I am so happy,” Bellissima answered: “do leave me in peace, madam.

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**Who acts:** Bellissima · **What happens:** be, answer, leave · **To what, where:** Bellissima, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima), 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:pg503:5:21
# text = “I am so happy,” Bellissima answered: “do leave me in peace, madam.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | Bellissima |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Bellissima |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  | Bellissima |  | peace and madam |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme in peace=Location |

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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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