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title: “I will try,” said Signy; “it won’t be an easy matter, but it’s wort… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will try,” said Signy; “it won’t be an easy matter, but it’s worth while taking some trouble to have a little peace.” Who acts: Signy, it. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 68

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“I will try,” said Signy; “it won’t be an easy matter, but it’s worth while taking some trouble to have a little peace.”

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**Who acts:** Signy, it · **What happens:** try, say, not be, take, have · **To what, where:** easy matter, trouble, little peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Signy, it), 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:pg3282:30:68
# text = “I will try,” said Signy; “it won’t be an easy matter, but it’s worth while taking some trouble to have a little peace.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Signy	Signy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
12	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* | future | Signy |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Signy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | future | it | a easy matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | gerund |  | some trouble |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | a little peace |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=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 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.

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