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title: ‘Don’t be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.’ — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 52

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‘Don’t be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not frighten, go, see, find out · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg5615:25:52
# text = ‘Don’t be frightened; I will go and see if I can find out something.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **frighten** | infinitive · passive · do-support | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 2 | **go** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **find out** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | I | something |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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