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title: ‘This,’ she said, turning to the king, ‘is the girl whom you have al… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘This,’ she said, turning to the king, ‘is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege. Who acts: godmother, ‘. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 129

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‘This,’ she said, turning to the king, ‘is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege.

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**Who acts:** godmother, ‘ · **What happens:** say, turn, be, believe, vanish · **To what, where:** This, girl, you, sister · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, ‘), 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:pg641:12:129
# text = ‘This,’ she said, turning to the king, ‘is the girl whom you have always believed to be your sister, and who vanished during the siege.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	during	during	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | godmother | This |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | godmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the king *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | present | ‘ | the girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **believe** | present · perfect · passive |  | you |  |  |  | the girl *obl*; always *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | your sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **vanish** | past |  |  |  |  | during the siege |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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