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title: ‘Fear nothing; it will be all right,’ replied the dove, as she flew… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Fear nothing; it will be all right,’ replied the dove, as she flew away again. Who acts: command, nothing, scent. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 25

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‘Fear nothing; it will be all right,’ replied the dove, as she flew away again.

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**Who acts:** command, nothing, scent · **What happens:** be, reply, fly away · **To what, where:** dove

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (command, nothing, scent), 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:pg641:42:25
# text = ‘Fear nothing; it will be all right,’ replied the dove, as she flew away again.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | command |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | nothing | the dove |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent dove=Topic |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | scent |  |  |  | again | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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