--- title: ‘Oh, I’ll soon show you,’ answered the girl, taking the lid from the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh, I’ll soon show you,’ answered the girl, taking the lid from the box, and at the very bottom lay a scrap of a cloak, a mussel shell, and two fish scales. Who acts: I. 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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), 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:pg641:2:56 # text = ‘Oh, I’ll soon show you,’ answered the girl, taking the lid from the box, and at the very bottom lay a scrap of a cloak, a mussel shell, and two fish scales. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ll 'll NOUN VBP Number=Sing 7 reparandum _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 7 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 27 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 scrap scrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 cloak cloak NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 mussel mussel NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 compound _ _ 41 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **'ll** | present | I | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | present | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | the girl | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality | | 4 | **take** | gerund | | the lid | | the box | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent lid=Theme from box=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **lay** | present | | a scrap of a cloak and a mussel shell | | the bottom | | fish scales *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scrap=Theme at bottom=Destination | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/57/) - ↑ back to [A Tale of the Tontlawald](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/2/)