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title: ‘My Lady Queen, you are fair, ‘tis true, But Snowdrop is fairer far… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘My Lady Queen, you are fair, ‘tis true, But Snowdrop is fairer far than you. Who acts: Lady Queen, tis, Snowdrop. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 207

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‘My Lady Queen, you are fair, ‘tis true, But Snowdrop is fairer far than you.

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**Who acts:** Lady Queen, tis, Snowdrop · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lady Queen, tis, Snowdrop), 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:pg540:47:207
# text = ‘My Lady Queen, you are fair, ‘tis true, But Snowdrop is fairer far than you.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	Snowdrop	Snowdrop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	fairer	fair	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	conj	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My Lady Queen |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | tis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Snowdrop |  |  |  |  | fair, far *property* | tree rules |

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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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