--- title: ‘I am starting at once,’ said he to his brothers, ‘and if after a ye… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am starting at once,’ said he to his brothers, ‘and if after a year, a month, a week, and a day I have not returned with the water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, you, Costan, had better come after me.’ Who acts: I, Florea. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Florea), 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:pg641:19:38 # text = ‘I am starting at once,’ said he to his brothers, ‘and if after a year, a month, a week, and a day I have not returned with the water from the spring of the Fairy of the Dawn, you, Costan, had better come after me.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 returned return VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl:relcl _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 Dawn Dawn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 Costan Costan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 52 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 52 xcomp _ _ 54 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 55 after after ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present · progressive | I | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Florea | | Florea's brothers and ‘ | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **return** | present · perfect | I | a day *not said here* | | | spring | with the water | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | Florea *not said here* | | | | after me | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/39/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/19/)