--- title: If you are as successful with a little task which I shall give you t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: If you are as successful with a little task which I shall give you to-morrow we shall consider the matter settled, and you shall marry the princess.’ Who acts: you, I, we, matter. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/135/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 135 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 135 If you are as successful with a little task which I shall give you to-morrow we shall consider the matter settled, and you shall marry the princess.’ **Who acts:** you, I, we, matter · **What happens:** be, give, consider, settle, marry · **To what, where:** little task, you, morrow, princess This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, we, matter), 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:pg641:24:135 # text = If you are as successful with a little task which I shall give you to-morrow we shall consider the matter settled, and you shall marry the princess.’ 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 successful successful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obj _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 consider consider VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 settled settle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | with a little task; successful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | shall | I | a little task | you | | | to morrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Theme | | 3 | **consider** | shall | we | morrow *not said here* | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent morrow=Attribute clause=Theme | | 4 | **settle** | past | the matter | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **marry** | shall | you | the princess | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | 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 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/134/) - next →: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/136/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)