--- title: ‘What does fortune matter when one is young and strong?’ asked Tepha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘What does fortune matter when one is young and strong?’ asked Tephany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish. Who acts: fortune, one, aunt. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/38/) [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 Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/) / 38 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 38 ‘What does fortune matter when one is young and strong?’ asked Tephany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish. **Who acts:** fortune, one, aunt · **What happens:** matter, be, ask, let, finish · **To what, where:** Tephany, fortune · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, one, aunt), 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:pg3454:32:38 # text = ‘What does fortune matter when one is young and strong?’ asked Tephany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 matter matter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 14 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 Tephany Tephany PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 18 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 amazed amazed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 26 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present · do-support | fortune | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | one | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | one *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | Tephany | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent tephany=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | would | fortune's aunt | fortune | | | | hardly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **finish** | infinitive | fortune *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/39/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/)