--- title: Bless my soul, if there isn’t a fish, a real pike I do believe, up i… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Bless my soul, if there isn’t a fish, a real pike I do believe, up in that tree.’ Who acts: you, fish, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/39/) [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/) / [How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/) / 39 # The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 39 Bless my soul, if there isn’t a fish, a real pike I do believe, up in that tree.’ **Who acts:** you, fish, I · **What happens:** bless, be, believe · **To what, where:** soul, real pike This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fish, I), 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:pg641:16:39 # text = Bless my soul, if there isn’t a fish, a real pike I do believe, up in that tree.’ 1 Bless bless VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 7 expl _ _ 7 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 det _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | my soul | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | | 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a fish | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **believe** | present · do-support | I | a real pike *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=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 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/40/) - ↑ back to [How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/)