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title: In vain Saphir declared that love made them equal; Serpentine would… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In vain Saphir declared that love made them equal; Serpentine would only reply: ‘I love you too much to allow you to marry beneath your rank. Who acts: love, Serpentine, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 40

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In vain Saphir declared that love made them equal; Serpentine would only reply: ‘I love you too much to allow you to marry beneath your rank.

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**Who acts:** love, Serpentine, I · **What happens:** declare, make, reply, love, allow, marry · **To what, where:** vain Saphir, parents, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, Serpentine, 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:pg640:12:40
# text = In vain Saphir declared that love made them equal; Serpentine would only reply: ‘I love you too much to allow you to marry beneath your rank.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Serpentine	Serpentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  | vain Saphir |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | that love | parents *= parent* |  |  |  | equal *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | would | Serpentine |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **allow** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beneath your rank | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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