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title: As soon as she is born, she must have a nurse, whom I shall provide,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as she is born, she must have a nurse, whom I shall provide, and this nurse must live with the child in a secluded part of the palace; no other person must visit the child; neither the king nor the queen must see it until it is fourteen years old, for that would cause great sorrow and misfor
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 82

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As soon as she is born, she must have a nurse, whom I shall provide, and this nurse must live with the child in a secluded part of the palace; no other person must visit the child; neither the king nor the queen must see it until it is fourteen years old, for that would cause great sorrow and misfortune.’

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**Who acts:** majesty, I, nurse, other person, king, that · **What happens:** bear, have, provide, live, visit, see · **To what, where:** majesty, nurse, secluded part, child, person, great sorrow

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, I, nurse, other person), 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:pg5615:6:82
# text = As soon as she is born, she must have a nurse, whom I shall provide, and this nurse must live with the child in a secluded part of the palace; no other person must visit the child; neither the king nor the queen must see it until it is fourteen years old, for that would cause great sorrow and misfortune.’
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	secluded	secluded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
36	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
43	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	45	cc:preconj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
46	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	48	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
51	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	cop	_	_
55	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	nummod	_	_
56	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl:unmarked	_	_
57	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
60	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	62	nsubj	_	_
61	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	parataxis	_	_
63	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | majesty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | must | majesty | a nurse |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Patient |
| 3 | **provide** | shall | I | a nurse |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition whom=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | must | this nurse |  |  | a secluded part of the palace |  | with the child | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with child=Location |
| 5 | **visit** | must | no other person | the child |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **see** | must | the king nor the queen | person |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is** | present | nurse |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **cause** | would | that | great sorrow and misfortune |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sorrow=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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