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title: Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothin… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults. Who acts: mother, nothing, daughter, King. A sentence of «T
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 3

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Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults.

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**Who acts:** mother, nothing, daughter, King · **What happens:** have, care, be, lose, spoil, not try · **To what, where:** daughter, mother, any

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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 (mother, nothing, daughter, King), 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:pg503:5:3
# text = Her mother, who, since the death of the King, her father, had nothing in the world she cared for so much as this little Princess, was so terribly afraid of losing her that she quite spoiled her, and never tried to correct any of her faults.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	since	since	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
35	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
42	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	correct	correct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	faults	fault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | daughter's mother since the death of the King |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for much as this little Princess; afraid, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | gerund | nothing *not said here* | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 5 | **spoil** | past | daughter | mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **try** | past | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **correct** *speech: disagree* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | any |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent any=Patient |
| 8 | **die** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **fault** |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom fault «act 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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