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title: The lovely girl accepted his proposal gladly; but at the same time s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The lovely girl accepted his proposal gladly; but at the same time she warned him that she could never come up to the world above till her mother, the old witch, was dead. Who acts: lovely girl, girl, eye. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 61

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The lovely girl accepted his proposal gladly; but at the same time she warned him that she could never come up to the world above till her mother, the old witch, was dead.

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**Who acts:** lovely girl, girl, eye · **What happens:** accept, warn, not come up, be, propose · **To what, where:** proposal, eye, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (lovely girl, girl, eye), 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:pg640:24:61
# text = The lovely girl accepted his proposal gladly; but at the same time she warned him that she could never come up to the world above till her mother, the old witch, was dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	accepted	accept	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
22	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	above	above	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	till	till	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | past | the lovely girl | eye's proposal |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proposal=Theme |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | girl |  | eye |  | time |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **come up** | could | girl |  |  | the world | till girl's mother and the old witch | above *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to world=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **propose** |  | eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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