--- title: ‘Besides,’ she said, ‘if there is a single spark of life in you when… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Besides,’ she said, ‘if there is a single spark of life in you when the day comes, the stuff that is in this bottle will make you as sound as ever you were.’ Who acts: Princess, day, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, day, you), 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:pg640:45:51 # text = ‘Besides,’ she said, ‘if there is a single spark of life in you when the day comes, the stuff that is in this bottle will make you as sound as ever you were.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Besides besides INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 11 expl _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 spark spark NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 conj _ _ 19 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 26 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 csubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl:relcl _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 xcomp _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 35 obl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | | a single spark and the stuff | | | | of life | tree rules | | 3 | **come** | present | the day | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | this bottle | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | future | | the stuff | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **sound** | present | you | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/52/) - ↑ back to [The Blue Mountains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/45/)