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title: “When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.” Who acts: people, you. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 48

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“When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.”

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**Who acts:** people, you · **What happens:** be, not need · **To what, where:** love, advice, anyone

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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 (people, 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:pg503:7:48
# text = “When people are as much in love with one another as you two are, they don’t need advice from anyone else.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
11	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	appos	_	_
15	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
24	else	else	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | people |  |  | love |  | with one; much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **need** *in a quote* | present · do-support | people | advice |  | anyone |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot advice=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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