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title: Fiordelisa, can you indeed be so lovely and so faithless?’ he sighed… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiordelisa, can you indeed be so lovely and so faithless?’ he sighed, ‘then I may as well die at once!’ Who acts: Fiordelisa, I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 20

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Fiordelisa, can you indeed be so lovely and so faithless?’ he sighed, ‘then I may as well die at once!’

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**Who acts:** Fiordelisa, I · **What happens:** be, sigh, die

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Fiordelisa, I), 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:pg7277:4:20
# text = Fiordelisa, can you indeed be so lovely and so faithless?’ he sighed, ‘then I may as well die at once!’
1	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	faithless	faithless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	23	cc	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  | indeed, lovely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Fiordelisa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sigh** | past | Fiordelisa |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **die** | may | I |  |  |  | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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