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title: “Oh! you have a daughter,” cried the Yellow Dwarf (who was so called… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh! you have a daughter,” cried the Yellow Dwarf (who was so called because he _was_ a dwarf and had such a yellow face, and lived in the orange tree). Who acts: you, Yellow Dwarf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 39

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“Oh! you have a daughter,” cried the Yellow Dwarf (who was so called because he \_was\_ a dwarf and had such a yellow face, and lived in the orange tree).

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**Who acts:** you, Yellow Dwarf · **What happens:** have, cry, call, live · **To what, where:** daughter, dwarf, Yellow Dwarf, yellow face, orange tree · **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 (you, Yellow Dwarf), 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:pg503:5:39
# text = “Oh! you have a daughter,” cried the Yellow Dwarf (who was so called because he _was_ a dwarf and had such a yellow face, and lived in the orange tree).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
19	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you | a daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Yellow Dwarf | a dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | the Yellow Dwarf |  |  |  | because Dwarf | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | past | the Yellow Dwarf *not said here* | such yellow face |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 5 | **live** | past |  |  |  | the orange tree |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=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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