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title: ‘What! all alone, and without any means of existence?’ cried the kin… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What! all alone, and without any means of existence?’ cried the kind-hearted old Fairy. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 30

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‘What! all alone, and without any means of existence?’ cried the kind-hearted old Fairy.

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**What happens:** mean, cry · **To what, where:** hearted old Fairy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:12:30
# text = ‘What! all alone, and without any means of existence?’ cried the kind-hearted old Fairy.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obl	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | without any; of existence | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the hearted old Fairy |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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