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title: ‘Here,’ said the Fairy, ‘is a little task which it will take all you… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Here,’ said the Fairy, ‘is a little task which it will take all your prisoner’s skill and patience to accomplish. Who acts: ‘, little task. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 93

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‘Here,’ said the Fairy, ‘is a little task which it will take all your prisoner’s skill and patience to accomplish.

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**Who acts:** ‘, little task · **What happens:** say, be, take, accomplish · **To what, where:** Fairy, little task, skill · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, 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 task), 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:pg540:24:93
# text = ‘Here,’ said the Fairy, ‘is a little task which it will take all your prisoner’s skill and patience to accomplish.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the Fairy |  | here |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ‘ | a little task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | future | a little task | your prisoner's skill and patience |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme |
| 4 | **accomplish** | to-infinitive | a little task *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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