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title: Do you want to kill four-and-twenty girls who have never displeased… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you want to kill four-and-twenty girls who have never displeased you in any way?” Who acts: 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 68

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Do you want to kill four-and-twenty girls who have never displeased you in any way?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** want, kill, not displease · **To what, where:** four, way, twenty girls

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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), 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:pg503:7:68
# text = Do you want to kill four-and-twenty girls who have never displeased you in any way?”
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	displeased	displease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | four |  | any way |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **displease** | present · perfect · passive |  | twenty girls |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |

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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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