--- title: I am the Fairy of the Desert; without the Yellow Dwarf and his orang… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I am the Fairy of the Desert; without the Yellow Dwarf and his orange tree my great lions would soon have eaten you up, I can tell you, and in Fairyland we do not suffer ourselves to be insulted like this. Who acts: I, Fairy, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/) / 34 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 34 I am the Fairy of the Desert; without the Yellow Dwarf and his orange tree my great lions would soon have eaten you up, I can tell you, and in Fairyland we do not suffer ourselves to be insulted like this. **Who acts:** I, Fairy, we · **What happens:** be, eat up, tell, not suffer, insult · **To what, where:** Fairy, orange tree, you, ourselves, Fairyland · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, Fairy, we), 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:pg503:6:34 # text = I am the Fairy of the Desert; without the Yellow Dwarf and his orange tree my great lions would soon have eaten you up, I can tell you, and in Fairyland we do not suffer ourselves to be insulted like this. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Desert Desert PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 Dwarf Dwarf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 orange orange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 21 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 22 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 23 aux _ _ 23 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 advcl _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Fairyland Fairyland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 35 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 suffer suffer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 39 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 insulted insult VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | I | the Fairy | | | | of the Desert | tree rules | | 2 | **eat up** | would · perfect · passive | | Dwarf's orange tree my great lions | | | | without the Yellow Dwarf; soon *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | the Fairy | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **suffer** | present · do-support | we | ourselves | | Fairyland | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ourselves=Stimulus | | 5 | **insult** | to-infinitive · passive | we *not said here* | | | | | like this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | 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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/35/) - ↑ back to [The Yellow Dwarf, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/6/)