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title: Never was there a beautiful soul in such a frightful little body, bu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Never was there a beautiful soul in such a frightful little body, but in spite of his appearance everybody loved him. Who acts: beautiful soul, everybody. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1, sentence 5

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Never was there a beautiful soul in such a frightful little body, but in spite of his appearance everybody loved him.

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**Who acts:** beautiful soul, everybody · **What happens:** not be, love, spite · **To what, where:** Grumpy, spite, appearance

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (beautiful soul, everybody), 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:pg540:34:5
# text = Never was there a beautiful soul in such a frightful little body, but in spite of his appearance everybody loved him.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	12	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	21	nsubj	_	_
21	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | a beautiful soul in such frightful little body |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | past | everybody | Grumpy |  | spite of Grumpy's appearance |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **spite** |  |  | Grumpy's appearance |  |  |  |  | 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 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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