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title: So it was with Peridor and Diamantino; but of the two, the fairies d… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So it was with Peridor and Diamantino; but of the two, the fairies declared that Diamantino was much the worst; indeed, he behaved so badly to his wife Aglantino, that the fairies would not allow him to live any longer; and he died, leaving behind him a little daughter. Who acts: way, Peridor, Diama
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 8

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So it was with Peridor and Diamantino; but of the two, the fairies declared that Diamantino was much the worst; indeed, he behaved so badly to his wife Aglantino, that the fairies would not allow him to live any longer; and he died, leaving behind him a little daughter.

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**Who acts:** way, Peridor, Diamantino, fairies · **What happens:** be, declare, behave, not allow, live, die · **To what, where:** Diamantino, little daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (way, Peridor, Diamantino, fairies), 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:pg640:11:8
# text = So it was with Peridor and Diamantino; but of the two, the fairies declared that Diamantino was much the worst; indeed, he behaved so badly to his wife Aglantino, that the fairies would not allow him to live any longer; and he died, leaving behind him a little daughter.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	Diamantino	Diamantino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	behaved	behave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	Aglantino	Aglantino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	parataxis	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
44	any	any	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	49	advcl	_	_
52	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | way |  |  |  |  | with Peridor and Diamantino | tree rules |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Peridor and Diamantino |  |  |  |  | of the two | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Diamantino |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **behave** | past | Diamantino |  |  |  |  | to Diamantino's wife; badly, indeed *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **allow** | would | the fairies |  | Diamantino |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the fairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **die** | past | Diamantino |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **leave** | gerund | Diamantino *not said here* | a little daughter |  |  |  | behind Diamantino | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme behind he=Location |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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