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title: But, even if I am dying of love for her, I shall pretend to hate her… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, even if I am dying of love for her, I shall pretend to hate her until I am set free.” Who acts: I. 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 79

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But, even if I am dying of love for her, I shall pretend to hate her until I am set free.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** die, pretend, hate, be · **To what, where:** Fairy

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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 (I), 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:pg503:6:79
# text = But, even if I am dying of love for her, I shall pretend to hate her until I am set free.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	pretend	pretend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hate	hate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | of love; for Fairy | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of love=Causer |
| 2 | **pretend** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hate** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | free *property* | 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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