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title: ‘When better times come,’ her protectress said cheerfully, ‘and you… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When better times come,’ her protectress said cheerfully, ‘and you want to look like yourself again, you have only to whisper the words I have taught you into the basket, and say you would like to have your own face once more, and it will be all right in a moment. Who acts: better times, protectres
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 95

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‘When better times come,’ her protectress said cheerfully, ‘and you want to look like yourself again, you have only to whisper the words I have taught you into the basket, and say you would like to have your own face once more, and it will be all right in a moment.

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**Who acts:** better times, protectress, you, words, face · **What happens:** come, say, want, look, have, whisper · **To what, where:** words, basket, I, you, own face · **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 (better times, protectress, you, words), 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:pg641:12:95
# text = ‘When better times come,’ her protectress said cheerfully, ‘and you want to look like yourself again, you have only to whisper the words I have taught you into the basket, and say you would like to have your own face once more, and it will be all right in a moment.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	protectress	protectress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	whisper	whisper	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	49	advmod	_	_
49	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
53	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
55	all	all	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | better times |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dotterine's protectress |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **want** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **look** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again | like yourself | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **have** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the words |  | the basket |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic into basket=Recipient |
| 7 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive | the words *not said here* | I | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 9 | **like** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 10 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your own face |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 11 | **is** | future | face |  |  |  | moment | all, right *property* | 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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