--- title: Go back and fetch it, lest some ill-fortune should befall her, or en… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Go back and fetch it, lest some ill-fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen? Who acts: you, ill fortune, nothing evil. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/121/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 121 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 121 Go back and fetch it, lest some ill-fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen? **Who acts:** you, ill fortune, nothing evil · **What happens:** go back, fetch, befall, enter, happen · **To what, where:** basket, Dotterine, palace, chance This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ill fortune, nothing evil), 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:pg641:12:121 # text = Go back and fetch it, lest some ill-fortune should befall her, or enter the palace and trust to chance that nothing evil would happen? 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 fetch fetch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 9 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 befall befall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 enter enter VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 advcl _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 compound _ _ 26 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **fetch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | basket | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **befall** | should | some ill fortune | Dotterine | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **enter** | infinitive | | the palace and trust | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | | 5 | **happen** | would | nothing evil | chance *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/122/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)