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title: What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not su… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears. Who acts: craft, soft words, these. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 49

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What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears.

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**Who acts:** craft, soft words, these · **What happens:** not do, attain, not succeed, remain · **To what, where:** resource

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (craft, soft words, these), 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:pg641:35:49
# text = What craft will not do soft words may attain, and if these do not succeed there still remains the resource of tears.
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	succeed	succeed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	resource	resource	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | future | what craft |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attain** | may | soft words |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | these |  |  | there |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **remain** | present |  | the resource of tears |  |  | still |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme resource=Attribute |

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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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