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title: In spite of the blow which the Fairy of the Desert gave her, the Yel… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of the blow which the Fairy of the Desert gave her, the Yellow Dwarf compelled her to mount behind him upon his terrible Spanish cat; but she soon fainted away with pain and terror, and did not recover till they were within the walls of his frightful Castle of Steel. Who acts: blow, Yellow 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 36

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In spite of the blow which the Fairy of the Desert gave her, the Yellow Dwarf compelled her to mount behind him upon his terrible Spanish cat; but she soon fainted away with pain and terror, and did not recover till they were within the walls of his frightful Castle of Steel.

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**Who acts:** blow, Yellow Dwarf, Fairy, Dwarf · **What happens:** give, compel, mount, faint away, not recover, be · **To what, where:** Fairy, spite, blow

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blow, Yellow Dwarf, Fairy, 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:pg503:7:36
# text = In spite of the blow which the Fairy of the Desert gave her, the Yellow Dwarf compelled her to mount behind him upon his terrible Spanish cat; but she soon fainted away with pain and terror, and did not recover till they were within the walls of his frightful Castle of Steel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Desert	Desert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Dwarf	Dwarf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	compelled	compel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
26	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
43	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
44	till	till	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	within	within	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Steel	Steel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the blow |  | Fairy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **compel** | past | the Yellow Dwarf | Fairy |  | spite of the blow |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **mount** | to-infinitive | the Yellow Dwarf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind weed; upon weed's terrible Spanish cat | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent behind he=Destination |
| 4 | **faint away** | past | Fairy |  |  |  |  | with pain and terror; away, soon *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **recover** | past · do-support | Fairy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | Dwarf |  |  |  | till the walls | of weed's frightful Castle of Steel | tree rules |
| 7 | **spite** |  |  | the blow |  |  |  |  | nom spite «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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