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title: ‘Alas! now we are ruined indeed, for that was no other than the Fair… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Alas! now we are ruined indeed, for that was no other than the Fairy Carabosse, who has had a grudge against me ever since I was a boy and put sulphur into her porridge one day for fun.’ Who acts: that, Fairy Carabosse, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 14

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‘Alas! now we are ruined indeed, for that was no other than the Fairy Carabosse, who has had a grudge against me ever since I was a boy and put sulphur into her porridge one day for fun.’

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**Who acts:** that, Fairy Carabosse, I · **What happens:** ruin, be, have, put · **To what, where:** we, grudge, boy, sulphur, porridge

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Fairy Carabosse, I), 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:pg540:3:14
# text = ‘Alas! now we are ruined indeed, for that was no other than the Fairy Carabosse, who has had a grudge against me ever since I was a boy and put sulphur into her porridge one day for fun.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Carabosse	Carabosse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	grudge	grudge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
28	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
35	sulphur	sulphur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ruin** | present · passive |  | we |  |  | now | indeed *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | than the Fairy Carabosse; other *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | the Fairy Carabosse | a grudge |  |  |  | against me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | I | a boy |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | participle | the Fairy Carabosse *not said here* | sulphur |  | Queen's porridge | day | for fun | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sulphur=Goal |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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