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title: ‘Her cruel stepmother may have married her to someone else before I… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Her cruel stepmother may have married her to someone else before I am myself again, and then what good will life be to me?’ Who acts: life. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 32

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‘Her cruel stepmother may have married her to someone else before I am myself again, and then what good will life be to me?’

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**Who acts:** life · **What happens:** marry, be · **To what, where:** cruel stepmother

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (life), 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:pg7277:3:32
# text = ‘Her cruel stepmother may have married her to someone else before I am myself again, and then what good will life be to me?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | may · perfect · passive |  | Fiordelisa's cruel stepmother |  |  |  | to someone | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | future | life |  |  |  |  | to me | 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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