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title: ‘Be quite easy, Mistress Mimi,’ comforted Jem. — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Be quite easy, Mistress Mimi,’ comforted Jem. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, 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 3, sentence 16

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‘Be quite easy, Mistress Mimi,’ comforted Jem.

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**What happens:** be, comfort · **To what, where:** Jem

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg641:28:16
# text = ‘Be quite easy, Mistress Mimi,’ comforted Jem.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Mistress	Mistress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	Mimi	Mimi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **comfort** | past |  | Jem |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus jem=Experiencer |

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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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