--- title: “Very well; if you are so sure that the feather is yours, yours it s… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Very well; if you are so sure that the feather is yours, yours it shall be; only you will have to seek till you find a golden hen with a feather missing from her tail. Who acts: you, feather. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, feather), 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:pg3282:22:137 # text = “Very well; if you are so sure that the feather is yours, yours it shall be; only you will have to seek till you find a golden hen with a feather missing from her tail. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 missing miss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the feather | yours | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **find** *in a quote* | present | you | a golden hen | | | | with a feather | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic | | 6 | **miss** *in a quote* | gerund | a feather *not said here* | | | gardener's tail | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/138/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/22/)