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title: “You need not be afraid of that,” answered the Mermaid, “the Princes… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You need not be afraid of that,” answered the Mermaid, “the Princess thinks of no one but you, and the frightful Dwarf cannot persuade her to look at him.” Who acts: You, Mermaid, Princess, frightful Dwarf. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its depen
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 40

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“You need not be afraid of that,” answered the Mermaid, “the Princess thinks of no one but you, and the frightful Dwarf cannot persuade her to look at him.”

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**Who acts:** You, Mermaid, Princess, frightful Dwarf · **What happens:** not be, answer, think, not persuade, look · **To what, where:** Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You, Mermaid, Princess, frightful 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:pg503:7:40
# text = “You need not be afraid of that,” answered the Mermaid, “the Princess thinks of no one but you, and the frightful Dwarf cannot persuade her to look at him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | of that; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Mermaid |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the Princess |  |  |  |  | of no one | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **persuade** *in a quote* | can | the frightful Dwarf | Princess |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Bellissima | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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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