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title: Never let my cheek grow pale! — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Never let my cheek grow pale! Who acts: you, cheek. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 60

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Never let my cheek grow pale!

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**Who acts:** you, cheek · **What happens:** not let, grow · **To what, where:** cheek

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cheek), 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:pg640:5:60
# text = Never let my cheek grow pale!
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | my cheek |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | my cheek *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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