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title: The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as po… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world. Who acts: consequence, little person, daughter. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by A
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 4

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The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.

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**Who acts:** consequence, little person, daughter · **What happens:** be, wear, grow up, despise · **To what, where:** little person, one day, crown, own beauty

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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 (consequence, little person, daughter), 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:pg503:5:4
# text = The consequence was that this little person, who was as pretty as possible, and was one day to wear a crown, grew up so proud and so much in love with her own beauty that she despised everyone else in the world.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obj	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
41	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	40	obj	_	_
42	else	else	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the consequence | this little person and one day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | this little person and one day |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the consequence *not said here* | one day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear** | to-infinitive | the consequence *not said here* | a crown |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 5 | **grow up** | past | the consequence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **despise** | past | daughter | daughter's own beauty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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