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title: Yet, it is not too late, and if I were properly tended, in a week I… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 76

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Yet, it is not too late, and if I were properly tended, in a week I could vie with any horse in the stables!’

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**Who acts:** reason, I · **What happens:** not be, tend, vie · **To what, where:** I, stables

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (reason, I), 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:pg641:38:76
# text = Yet, it is not too late, and if I were properly tended, in a week I could vie with any horse in the stables!’
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tended	tend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	vie	vie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | reason |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tend** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | I |  |  | week | properly *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **vie** | could | I |  |  | the stables |  | with any horse | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with horse=Co-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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