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title: ‘Do not be cast down,’ she said with a smile; ‘if that is how the af… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Do not be cast down,’ she said with a smile; ‘if that is how the affair stands all will go well. Who acts: light, that, affair, all. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 84

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‘Do not be cast down,’ she said with a smile; ‘if that is how the affair stands all will go well.

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**Who acts:** light, that, affair, all · **What happens:** not cast down, say, be, stand, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, that, affair, all), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:1637`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:19:84
# text = ‘Do not be cast down,’ she said with a smile; ‘if that is how the affair stands all will go well.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	affair	affair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	all	all	PRON	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cast down** | infinitive · passive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | light |  |  |  |  | with a smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | that |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | present | the affair |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** | future | all |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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