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title: ‘Quietly, quietly! this will never do; your wife is very ill, you mu… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Quietly, quietly! this will never do; your wife is very ill, you must let her rest all to-day.’ Who acts: this, wife, you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 80

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‘Quietly, quietly! this will never do; your wife is very ill, you must let her rest all to-day.’

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**Who acts:** this, wife, you · **What happens:** not do, be, let, rest · **To what, where:** wife, all

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, wife, you), 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:pg540:37:80
# text = ‘Quietly, quietly! this will never do; your wife is very ill, you must let her rest all to-day.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | future | this |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | your wife |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | must | you | wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rest** | infinitive | wife *not said here* | all |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=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 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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