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title: ‘Indeed, good mother, I am too sad to care for company,’ she answere… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Indeed, good mother, I am too sad to care for company,’ she answered; and the tears ran down her cheeks. Who acts: good mother, Turritella, tears. 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 70

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‘Indeed, good mother, I am too sad to care for company,’ she answered; and the tears ran down her cheeks.

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**Who acts:** good mother, Turritella, tears · **What happens:** be, care, answer, run down · **To what, where:** cheeks

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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 (good mother, Turritella, tears), 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:pg7277:4:70
# text = ‘Indeed, good mother, I am too sad to care for company,’ she answered; and the tears ran down her cheeks.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | good mother |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **care** | to-infinitive | good mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for company | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for company=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run down** | past | the tears | Turritella's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cheek=Theme |

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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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