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title: ‘Be of good heart, dear master,’ replied Waska; ‘from this day forth… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Be of good heart, dear master,’ replied Waska; ‘from this day forth you will know nothing but happiness and prosperity. Who acts: good heart, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 191

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‘Be of good heart, dear master,’ replied Waska; ‘from this day forth you will know nothing but happiness and prosperity.

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**Who acts:** good heart, you · **What happens:** be, reply, know · **To what, where:** nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good heart, 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:pg640:33:191
# text = ‘Be of good heart, dear master,’ replied Waska; ‘from this day forth you will know nothing but happiness and prosperity.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Waska	Waska	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obj	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	prosperity	prosperity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of good heart and dear master | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | good heart and dear master |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | future | you | nothing |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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 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.

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