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title: ‘“Nothing at all, if it please you, madam.” — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘“Nothing at all, if it please you, madam.” A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 31

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‘“Nothing at all, if it please you, madam.”

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:38:31
# text = ‘“Nothing at all, if it please you, madam.”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	compound	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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