--- title: ‘My good friend,’ said the youth, ‘be of good cheer, for I can soon… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘My good friend,’ said the youth, ‘be of good cheer, for I can soon heal your leg,’ and with these words he poured some of the precious water over the wolf’s paw, and in a minute the animal was springing about sound and well on all fours. Who acts: good friend, I, friend, animal. A sentence of «The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/) / 41 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 41 ‘My good friend,’ said the youth, ‘be of good cheer, for I can soon heal your leg,’ and with these words he poured some of the precious water over the wolf’s paw, and in a minute the animal was springing about sound and well on all fours. **Who acts:** good friend, I, friend, animal · **What happens:** say, be, heal, pour, spring · **To what, where:** youth, leg, some, paw · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (good friend, I, friend, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:14:41 # text = ‘My good friend,’ said the youth, ‘be of good cheer, for I can soon heal your leg,’ and with these words he poured some of the precious water over the wolf’s paw, and in a minute the animal was springing about sound and well on all fours. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cheer cheer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 21 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 poured pour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 31 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 springing spring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 51 about about ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 54 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 57 advmod _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 57 det _ _ 57 fours four NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | My good friend | the youth | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | of good cheer | tree rules | | 3 | **heal** | can | I | your leg | | | | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 4 | **pour** | past | friend | some | | the wolf's paw | | with this words | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | | 5 | **spring** | past · progressive | the animal | | | | minute | about sound and all fours | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about sound=Trajectory | 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. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/42/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/14/)