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title: So saying, in spite of Bellissima’s tears and cries, he stabbed the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, in spite of Bellissima’s tears and cries, he stabbed the King to the heart with the diamond sword. Who acts: Bellissima. 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 96

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So saying, in spite of Bellissima’s tears and cries, he stabbed the King to the heart with the diamond sword.

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**Who acts:** Bellissima · **What happens:** say, stab, spite · **To what, where:** spite, King, tears · **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 (Bellissima), 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:pg503:7:96
# text = So saying, in spite of Bellissima’s tears and cries, he stabbed the King to the heart with the diamond sword.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Bellissima	Bellissima	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stabbed	stab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Bellissima *not said here* |  |  | spite of Bellissima's tears and cries |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in spite=Manner |
| 2 | **stab** | past | Bellissima | the King |  |  |  | to the heart with the diamond sword *result* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent king=Patient to heart=Result |
| 3 | **spite** |  |  | Bellissima's tears and cries |  |  |  |  | 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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