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title: But before her death she called her husband to her and said, ‘Never… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But before her death she called her husband to her and said, ‘Never let the child put his feet on the ground, for as soon as he does so he will fall into the power of a wicked Fairy, who will do him much harm.’ Who acts: Queen, child, husband, wicked Fairy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by A
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 34

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But before her death she called her husband to her and said, ‘Never let the child put his feet on the ground, for as soon as he does so he will fall into the power of a wicked Fairy, who will do him much harm.’

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**Who acts:** Queen, child, husband, wicked Fairy · **What happens:** call, say, not let, put, do, fall · **To what, where:** husband, last, feet, ground, power · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, child, husband, wicked Fairy), 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:pg640:25:34
# text = But before her death she called her husband to her and said, ‘Never let the child put his feet on the ground, for as soon as he does so he will fall into the power of a wicked Fairy, who will do him much harm.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	xcomp	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl:relcl	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Queen | Queen's husband | last |  | before Queen's death |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Topic to she=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | past | the child | husband's feet |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on ground=Destination |
| 5 | **do** | present | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fall** | future | husband |  |  |  |  | into the power of a wicked Fairy *result*; soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result |
| 7 | **do** | future | a wicked Fairy | husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **die** |  | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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