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title: “Dare to lay a finger upon this illustrious Fairy! — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dare to lay a finger upon this illustrious Fairy! A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 45

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“Dare to lay a finger upon this illustrious Fairy!

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**What happens:** lay · **To what, where:** finger

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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: 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:pg503:6:45
# text = “Dare to lay a finger upon this illustrious Fairy!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dare	dare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a finger |  |  |  | upon this illustrious Fairy | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme upon fairy=Destination |

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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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