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title: I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and patient, and better days will come. Who acts: I, stepmother, better days. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 74

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I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and patient, and better days will come.

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**Who acts:** I, stepmother, better days · **What happens:** know, be, come · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, stepmother, better days), 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:pg641:12:74
# text = I know that your stepmother is very unkind to you, but be brave and patient, and better days will come.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	unkind	unkind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | your stepmother |  | you |  |  | unkind *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | your stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | your stepmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | future | better days |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 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.

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