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title: You had better submit to your fate, and make no noise about it, for… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You had better submit to your fate, and make no noise about it, for though I pity you from my heart there is no way of helping you.’ Who acts: You, I, way, your. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 28

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You had better submit to your fate, and make no noise about it, for though I pity you from my heart there is no way of helping you.’

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**Who acts:** You, I, way, your · **What happens:** have, submit, make, pity, be, help · **To what, where:** noise, you, heart

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. 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, way, your), 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:pg641:32:28
# text = You had better submit to your fate, and make no noise about it, for though I pity you from my heart there is no way of helping you.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	submit	submit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pity	pity	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	helping	help	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | You |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **submit** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to your fate | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fate=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | no noise |  |  |  | about noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 4 | **pity** | present | I | you |  | my heart |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** | present | no way |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | gerund | no way *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 7 | **fate** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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