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title: “Ah!” cried the pretended Fairy, “if you have fallen into _her_ hand… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah!” cried the pretended Fairy, “if you have fallen into _her_ hands, you won’t get away until you have married her. Who acts: pretended Fairy, you. 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 70

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“Ah!” cried the pretended Fairy, “if you have fallen into \_her\_ hands, you won’t get away until you have married her.

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**Who acts:** pretended Fairy, you · **What happens:** cry, pretend, fall, not get away, marry · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pretended Fairy, you), 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:pg503:6:70
# text = “Ah!” cried the pretended Fairy, “if you have fallen into _her_ hands, you won’t get away until you have married her.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
16	_	_	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the pretended Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | \_ Fairy's \_ hands | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get away** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **marry** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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