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title: ‘But, mother dear, what’s the matter with you?’ repeated Jem, quite… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘But, mother dear, what’s the matter with you?’ repeated Jem, quite frightened. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 111

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‘But, mother dear, what’s the matter with you?’ repeated Jem, quite frightened.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** be, repeat · **To what, where:** matter

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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:pg641:26:111
# text = ‘But, mother dear, what’s the matter with you?’ repeated Jem, quite frightened.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
5	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | mother | the matter |  |  |  | with you | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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