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title: My dear daughter Mayblossom is lost: whether she has been stolen awa… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My dear daughter Mayblossom is lost: whether she has been stolen away or has simply disappeared I cannot tell. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 41

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My dear daughter Mayblossom is lost: whether she has been stolen away or has simply disappeared I cannot tell.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** lose, steal away, disappear, not tell · **To what, where:** dear daughter, daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:4:41
# text = My dear daughter Mayblossom is lost: whether she has been stolen away or has simply disappeared I cannot tell.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Mayblossom	Mayblossom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present · passive |  | My dear daughter |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **steal away** | present · perfect · passive |  | daughter |  |  |  | away *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **disappear** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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