--- title: “Alas!” she answered; “no wonder that I am crying, seeing that I hav… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Alas!” she answered; “no wonder that I am crying, seeing that I have lost the basket of cake that was to help me to get safely to the cave of the Fairy of the Desert.” Who acts: Bellissima, wonder, basket. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellissima, wonder, basket), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:5:73 # text = “Alas!” she answered; “no wonder that I am crying, seeing that I have lost the basket of cake that was to help me to get safely to the cave of the Fairy of the Desert.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 wonder wonder NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl:relcl _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 safely safely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 cave cave NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Bellissima | no wonder | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wonder=Eventuality | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present · progressive | no wonder | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | gerund | Bellissima *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Bellissima | the basket of cake | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the basket of cake | the basket of cake *not said here* | | | | help *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the basket of cake *not said here* | | | | | to the cave of the Fairy of the Desert *result*; safely *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cave=Result | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/74/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/5/)