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title: ‘Don’t be anxious,’ said the old man, throwing the stalks back into… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t be anxious,’ said the old man, throwing the stalks back into the basket; ‘just go on and carry the basket to the castle, and it will bring you luck.’ Who acts: old man, stalk. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 7

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‘Don’t be anxious,’ said the old man, throwing the stalks back into the basket; ‘just go on and carry the basket to the castle, and it will bring you luck.’

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**Who acts:** old man, stalk · **What happens:** not be, say, throw back, go on, carry, bring · **To what, where:** stalks, basket, castle, luck, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, stalk), 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:pg5615:38:7
# text = ‘Don’t be anxious,’ said the old man, throwing the stalks back into the basket; ‘just go on and carry the basket to the castle, and it will bring you luck.’
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	cop	_	_
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
24	on	on	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **throw back** | gerund | the old man *not said here* | the stalks |  |  |  | into the basket *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer stalk=Theme into basket=Result |
| 4 | **go on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | infinitive |  | the basket |  | the castle |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 6 | **bring** | future | stalk | luck | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination luck=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 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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