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title: “Be quiet, it will be all right,” said the fox; and taking a bigger… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Be quiet, it will be all right,” said the fox; and taking a bigger basket than before, he filled it quite full of pears. Who acts: you, basket, fox. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 63

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“Be quiet, it will be all right,” said the fox; and taking a bigger basket than before, he filled it quite full of pears.

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**Who acts:** you, basket, fox · **What happens:** be, say, take, fill · **To what, where:** bigger basket, basket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, basket, fox), 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:pg2435:25:63
# text = “Be quiet, it will be all right,” said the fox; and taking a bigger basket than before, he filled it quite full of pears.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	csubj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | future | basket |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | gerund |  | a bigger basket |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 5 | **fill** | past | fox | basket |  |  |  | full *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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