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title: ‘Alas! sire, do not let us make bad worse; no doubt this is a Fairy!’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Alas! sire, do not let us make bad worse; no doubt this is a Fairy!’ Who acts: you, us, this, doubt. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 60

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‘Alas! sire, do not let us make bad worse; no doubt this is a Fairy!’

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**Who acts:** you, us, this, doubt · **What happens:** not let, make, doubt, be · **To what, where:** us, Fairy

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 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, us, this, doubt), 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:pg7277:15:60
# text = ‘Alas! sire, do not let us make bad worse; no doubt this is a Fairy!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **doubt** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | no doubt | a Fairy |  |  |  |  | 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 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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