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title: ‘Don’t despair! the Porcelain Maiden is a young girl, beautiful as V… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t despair! the Porcelain Maiden is a young girl, beautiful as Venus, who dwells two hundred miles from here. Who acts: you, Porcelain Maiden, Venus. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 50

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‘Don’t despair! the Porcelain Maiden is a young girl, beautiful as Venus, who dwells two hundred miles from here.

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**Who acts:** you, Porcelain Maiden, Venus · **What happens:** do, be, dwell · **To what, where:** despair, young girl, hundred miles

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Porcelain Maiden, Venus), 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:pg7277:21:50
# text = ‘Don’t despair! the Porcelain Maiden is a young girl, beautiful as Venus, who dwells two hundred miles from here.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	n't	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Porcelain	Porcelain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Venus	Venus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	_
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | imperative | you *not said here* | n't despair |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despair=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the Porcelain Maiden | a young girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | Venus | hundred miles |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mile=Location |

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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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