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title: So ended these unfortunate lovers, whom not even the Mermaid could h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So ended these unfortunate lovers, whom not even the Mermaid could help, because all the magic power had been lost with the diamond sword. Who acts: Mermaid. 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 98

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So ended these unfortunate lovers, whom not even the Mermaid could help, because all the magic power had been lost with the diamond sword.

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**Who acts:** Mermaid · **What happens:** not help, lose · **To what, where:** ended unfortunate lovers, magic power

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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 (Mermaid), 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:pg503:7:98
# text = So ended these unfortunate lovers, whom not even the Mermaid could help, because all the magic power had been lost with the diamond sword.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ended	ended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Mermaid	Mermaid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | could | the Mermaid |  | this ended unfortunate lovers |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | all magic power |  |  |  | with the diamond sword | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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