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title: ‘You shall not be called Thumbelina!’ said the spirit of the flower… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You shall not be called Thumbelina!’ said the spirit of the flower to her; ‘that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that. Who acts: Thumbelina, that, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 249

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‘You shall not be called Thumbelina!’ said the spirit of the flower to her; ‘that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.

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**Who acts:** Thumbelina, that, you · **What happens:** not call, say, be · **To what, where:** You, spirit, flower, ugly name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumbelina, that, you), 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:pg640:47:249
# text = ‘You shall not be called Thumbelina!’ said the spirit of the flower to her; ‘that is an ugly name, and you are much too pretty for that.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	much	much	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	too	too	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **call** | shall · passive |  | You |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Thumbelina | the spirit of the flower | flower |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Topic to she=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that | a ugly name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | for that; pretty *property* | tree rules |

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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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