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title: ‘Well, forward!’ cried Petru lightly, ‘and if I have to bear cold, I… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, forward!’ cried Petru lightly, ‘and if I have to bear cold, I must bear it!’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 102

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‘Well, forward!’ cried Petru lightly, ‘and if I have to bear cold, I must bear it!’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** cry, have, bear · **To what, where:** Petru, horse

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. 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.

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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:pg641:20:102
# text = ‘Well, forward!’ cried Petru lightly, ‘and if I have to bear cold, I must bear it!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Petru |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petru=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **bear** | must | I | horse |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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