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title: Poor Sabella! how could there be when her heart was far away on the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Poor Sabella! how could there be when her heart was far away on the Ice Mountains? Who acts: heart. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 2

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Poor Sabella! how could there be when her heart was far away on the Ice Mountains?

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Ice Mountains

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg7277:16:2
# text = Poor Sabella! how could there be when her heart was far away on the Ice Mountains?
1	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	parataxis	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Sabella's heart |  |  | the Ice Mountains |  | away, far *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 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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