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title: “Will it soon be ready now?” said he, but he did not look up this ti… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will it soon be ready now?” said he, but he did not look up this time any more than he had done the first time, for he was still half asleep. Who acts: little, giant. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 6

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“Will it soon be ready now?” said he, but he did not look up this time any more than he had done the first time, for he was still half asleep.

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**Who acts:** little, giant · **What happens:** be, say, not look up, do · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little, giant), 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:pg503:18:6
# text = “Will it soon be ready now?” said he, but he did not look up this time any more than he had done the first time, for he was still half asleep.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	any	any	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
23	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	36	advmod	_	_
36	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | little |  |  |  | now | ready, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | giant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **look up** | past · do-support | giant |  |  |  | time |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | giant |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | giant |  |  |  | still | asleep, half *property* | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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