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title: ‘Don’t worry about that,’ replied the girl, ‘for I’ve thought it all… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Don’t worry about that,’ replied the girl, ‘for I’ve thought it all over, and have settled on a plan which will make us each able to bear with the other! Who acts: I, plan, us. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), with its dependency tree and
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 29

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‘Don’t worry about that,’ replied the girl, ‘for I’ve thought it all over, and have settled on a plan which will make us each able to bear with the other!

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**Who acts:** I, plan, us · **What happens:** not worry, reply, have, think, settle, make · **To what, where:** girl, feeling, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(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, plan, us), 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:pg640:36:29
# text = ‘Don’t worry about that,’ replied the girl, ‘for I’ve thought it all over, and have settled on a plan which will make us each able to bear with the other!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	n't	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worry	worry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’ve	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **worry** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | about that | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | feeling |  |  |  | over *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 5 | **settle** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | on a plan | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on plan=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | future | a plan | us |  |  |  | able *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |
| 7 | **bear** | to-infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the other | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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