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title: Why do you waste your pity on these princes, who love you so much th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do you waste your pity on these princes, who love you so much that all their trouble would be well repaid by a single smile from you?” Who acts: you, single smile, your, princes. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 17

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Why do you waste your pity on these princes, who love you so much that all their trouble would be well repaid by a single smile from you?”

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**Who acts:** you, single smile, your, princes · **What happens:** waste, love, repay, pity, trouble · **To what, where:** pity, you, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, single smile, your, princes), 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:pg503:6:17
# text = Why do you waste your pity on these princes, who love you so much that all their trouble would be well repaid by a single smile from you?”
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	waste	waste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	repaid	repay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | present · do-support | you | your pity |  |  |  | on this princes *goal* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pity=Asset on prince=Goal |
| 2 | **love** | present |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 3 | **repay** | would · passive | a single smile from you | princes's trouble |  |  |  | well *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **pity** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | princes *= prince* |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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