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title: “Lie quiet,” said she who brought her the china cup, “and get a litt… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lie quiet,” said she who brought her the china cup, “and get a little sleep if you can. Who acts: magician, china cup. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 3

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“Lie quiet,” said she who brought her the china cup, “and get a little sleep if you can.

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**Who acts:** magician, china cup · **What happens:** lie, say, bring, get · **To what, where:** china cup, head, little sleep · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, china cup), 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:pg503:52:3
# text = “Lie quiet,” said she who brought her the china cup, “and get a little sleep if you can.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | past | magician | the china cup | head |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cup=Theme |
| 4 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | the china cup *not said here* | a little sleep |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus |

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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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