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title: At first she thought that all her adventures, the terrible lions, an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 62

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At first she thought that all her adventures, the terrible lions, and her promise to the Yellow Dwarf that he should marry Bellissima, must have been a dream, but there was the new cap with its beautiful ribbon and lace to remind her that it was all true, which made her so unhappy that she could neither eat, drink, nor sleep for thinking of it.

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**Who acts:** queen, Dwarf, cap, sleep · **What happens:** think, marry, be, remind, make, eat · **To what, where:** Bellissima, dream, new cap, queen · **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 (queen, Dwarf, cap, sleep), 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:pg503:5:62
# text = At first she thought that all her adventures, the terrible lions, and her promise to the Yellow Dwarf that he should marry Bellissima, must have been a dream, but there was the new cap with its beautiful ribbon and lace to remind her that it was all true, which made her so unhappy that she could neither eat, drink, nor sleep for thinking of it.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
25	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	remind	remind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	iobj	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	all	all	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
55	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	parataxis	_	_
56	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	so	so	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	_
59	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
60	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
61	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	63	aux	_	_
62	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
65	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	63	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	68	punct	_	_
67	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	68	cc	_	_
68	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
69	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	70	mark	_	_
70	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	68	acl	_	_
71	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **marry** | should | Dwarf | Bellissima |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bellissima=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | must · perfect |  | a dream |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the new cap |  |  |  | with cap's beautiful ribbon and lace | tree rules |
| 5 | **remind** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Dwarf *not said here* |  | queen |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 6 | **is** | past | cap |  |  |  |  | all, true *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | past |  | queen |  |  |  | sleep *obl*; unhappy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 8 | **eat** | could | queen |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **drink** | infinitive | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of cap | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **adventure** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 12 | **promise** |  | queen |  |  |  |  | to the Yellow Dwarf | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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