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title: For three years now she has refused to marry anyone whatsoever, unti… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For three years now she has refused to marry anyone whatsoever, until she should give up all hope of the coming of the man who released her from the spell. Who acts: noise, hope, man. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 136

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For three years now she has refused to marry anyone whatsoever, until she should give up all hope of the coming of the man who released her from the spell.

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**Who acts:** noise, hope, man · **What happens:** refuse, not marry, give up, come, release · **To what, where:** anyone, hope, noise, spell

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, hope, man), 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:pg640:45:136
# text = For three years now she has refused to marry anyone whatsoever, until she should give up all hope of the coming of the man who released her from the spell.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	refused	refuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | present · perfect | noise |  |  |  | year |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **marry** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 3 | **give up** | should | noise | all hope |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | all hope *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of man=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **release** | past | the man | noise |  | the spell |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer she=Source |

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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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