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title: She will have no power over you when you are grown up, and no one el… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She will have no power over you when you are grown up, and no one else can hurt you either, if only you are careful never to part from your basket, or to lose the eggshells that are in it. Who acts: stepmother, one, you, that. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 75

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She will have no power over you when you are grown up, and no one else can hurt you either, if only you are careful never to part from your basket, or to lose the eggshells that are in it.

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**Who acts:** stepmother, one, you, that · **What happens:** have, grow up, hurt, be, lose · **To what, where:** power, you, eggshells, basket

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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 (stepmother, one, you, that), 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:pg641:12:75
# text = She will have no power over you when you are grown up, and no one else can hurt you either, if only you are careful never to part from your basket, or to lose the eggshells that are in it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	else	else	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	eggshells	eggshell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | stepmother | no power |  |  |  | over you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 2 | **grow up** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hurt** | can | no one | you |  |  |  | either *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | part from your basket *obl*; careful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lose** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | the eggshells |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eggshell=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | present | that |  |  | basket |  |  | tree rules |

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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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