--- title: ‘I will give you a task to perform, for you are brave, and will carr… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I will give you a task to perform, for you are brave, and will carry it through,’ continued Venus, when she had talked a long time, and both of them were getting sleepy. Who acts: I, you, Venus, both. 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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, you, Venus, both), 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:pg641:21:59 # text = ‘I will give you a task to perform, for you are brave, and will carry it through,’ continued Venus, when she had talked a long time, and both of them were getting sleepy. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 ccomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 perform perform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 through through ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 23 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 Venus Venus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 39 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 40 sleepy sleepy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | future | I | a task | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient task=Theme | | 2 | **perform** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a task *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **carry** | future | you *not said here* | task | | | | through *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **continue** | past | | Venus | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **talk** | past · perfect | Venus | | | | time | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **get** | past · progressive | both | | | | | sleepy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/60/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/)