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title: As for this affair with the Ambassador, you can assure Sabella that… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As for this affair with the Ambassador, you can assure Sabella that she may look forward tranquilly to his triumphal entry, since it will all turn out well for her in the end.’ Who acts: you, Sabella, entry, Mannikin. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with it
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 59

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As for this affair with the Ambassador, you can assure Sabella that she may look forward tranquilly to his triumphal entry, since it will all turn out well for her in the end.’

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**Who acts:** you, Sabella, entry, Mannikin · **What happens:** assure, look, turn out, enter · **To what, where:** Sabella, end

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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 (you, Sabella, entry, Mannikin), 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:pg7277:16:59
# text = As for this affair with the Ambassador, you can assure Sabella that she may look forward tranquilly to his triumphal entry, since it will all turn out well for her in the end.’
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	triumphal	triumphal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assure** | can | you |  | Sabella |  |  | as this affair with the Ambassador | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sabella=Recipient |
| 2 | **look** | may | Sabella |  |  |  |  | forward, tranquilly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **turn out** | future | entry |  |  |  | in the end | for Sabella; all, well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location |
| 4 | **enter** |  | Mannikin |  |  |  |  |  | nom entry «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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