--- title: 'It will not be so easy as you think,' answered the city swallow, sh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'It will not be so easy as you think,' answered the city swallow, shaking her head; 'for they will have to prove that they are the king's children, and also that their mother never went mad at all. Who acts: It, you, children, mother. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/) / 26 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 26 'It will not be so easy as you think,' answered the city swallow, shaking her head; 'for they will have to prove that they are the king's children, and also that their mother never went mad at all. **Who acts:** It, you, children, mother · **What happens:** not be, think, answer, shake, have, prove · **To what, where:** city swallow, head, children This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, you, children, mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:33:26 # text = 'It will not be so easy as you think,' answered the city swallow, shaking her head; 'for they will have to prove that they are the king's children, and also that their mother never went mad at all. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 22 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 38 also also ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 43 advmod _ _ 43 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 44 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | future | It | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | you | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | the city swallow | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent swallow=Eventuality | | 4 | **shake** | gerund | | swallow's head | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 5 | **have** | future | children *= child* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **prove** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | children *= child* | the king's children | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **not** **go** | past | children's mother | | | | | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/27/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)