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title: She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and chained him to a rock, then the fear of death would make him forget Bellissima and become her slave. Who acts: Princess, fear, King. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 63

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She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and chained him to a rock, then the fear of death would make him forget Bellissima and become her slave.

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**Who acts:** Princess, fear, King · **What happens:** think, carry off, chain, make, forget, become · **To what, where:** King, frightful cavern, Bellissima, slave, death

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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 (Princess, fear, King), 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:pg503:6:63
# text = She thought that if she carried him off to some frightful cavern and chained him to a rock, then the fear of death would make him forget Bellissima and become her slave.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	chained	chain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **carry off** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Princess | King |  | some frightful cavern |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to cavern=Destination |
| 3 | **chain** | past | Princess *not said here* | King |  |  |  | to a rock | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to rock=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **make** | would | the fear of death | King |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **forget** | infinitive | King *not said here* | Bellissima |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | infinitive | King *not said here* | Princess's slave |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **fear** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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