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title: “Do you want me to employ my art against the Yellow Dwarf, who is my… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Do you want me to employ my art against the Yellow Dwarf, who is my best friend, and take away from him a proud princess whom I can but look upon as my rival?” Who acts: you, Fairy, Yellow Dwarf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 95

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“Do you want me to employ my art against the Yellow Dwarf, who is my best friend, and take away from him a proud princess whom I can but look upon as my rival?”

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**Who acts:** you, Fairy, Yellow Dwarf · **What happens:** want, employ, be, take away, look · **To what, where:** Fairy, art, best friend, proud princess

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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 (you, Fairy, Yellow Dwarf), 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:pg503:6:95
# text = “Do you want me to employ my art against the Yellow Dwarf, who is my best friend, and take away from him a proud princess whom I can but look upon as my rival?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	employ	employ	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
29	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the Fairy of the Desert *= fairy* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **employ** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Fairy of the Desert *= fairy* *not said here* | my art |  |  |  | against the Yellow Dwarf | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the Yellow Dwarf | my best friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take away** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a proud princess |  |  |  | from friend; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon my rival | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon rival=Theme |

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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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