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title: ‘Oh! don’t let that trouble you,’ replied the shark, ‘you have only… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh! don’t let that trouble you,’ replied the shark, ‘you have only to sit on my back and I will undertake that not a drop of water shall touch you.’ Who acts: you, I, drop. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 49

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‘Oh! don’t let that trouble you,’ replied the shark, ‘you have only to sit on my back and I will undertake that not a drop of water shall touch you.’

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**Who acts:** you, I, drop · **What happens:** not let, reply, have, sit, undertake, touch · **To what, where:** trouble, shark, back, you · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, drop), 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:pg3454:5:49
# text = ‘Oh! don’t let that trouble you,’ replied the shark, ‘you have only to sit on my back and I will undertake that not a drop of water shall touch you.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **let** | infinitive · do-support |  | that trouble |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Recipient you=Theme |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the shark |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | my back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
| 5 | **undertake** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **touch** | shall | a drop of water | you |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme |

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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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