--- title: It isn’t much to look at, but if you blow it, anything that you have… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It isn’t much to look at, but if you blow it, anything that you have lost or that has been taken from you will find its way back to you in a moment.’ Who acts: whistle, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/69/) [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/) / 69 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 69 It isn’t much to look at, but if you blow it, anything that you have lost or that has been taken from you will find its way back to you in a moment.’ **Who acts:** whistle, you · **What happens:** not be, look, blow, lose, take, find · **To what, where:** whistle, that, way 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 (whistle, you), 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:pg641:24:69 # text = It isn’t much to look at, but if you blow it, anything that you have lost or that has been taken from you will find its way back to you in a moment.’ 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 conj _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 24 obl _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | whistle | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **blow** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | whistle | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary anything=Product | | 4 | **lose** | present · perfect · passive | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | | that | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **find** | future | you | whistle's way | | | moment | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/70/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)