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title: ‘If that is all, tell me what I have got to do, and I will do it,’ c… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘If that is all, tell me what I have got to do, and I will do it,’ cried Bernez, letting fall his chisel. Who acts: that, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 12

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‘If that is all, tell me what I have got to do, and I will do it,’ cried Bernez, letting fall his chisel.

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**Who acts:** that, I · **What happens:** be, get, do, cry, let, fall · **To what, where:** me, courage, chisel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, I), 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:pg3454:26:12
# text = ‘If that is all, tell me what I have got to do, and I will do it,’ cried Bernez, letting fall his chisel.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
23	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	chisel	chisel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that |  | me |  |  | tell *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | future | I | courage |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **let** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall** | infinitive |  | man's chisel |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient chisel=Result |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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