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title: ‘Now, don’t be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits,… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now, don’t be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits, for there is no need to despair. Who acts: you, need. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 96

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‘Now, don’t be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits, for there is no need to despair.

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**Who acts:** you, need · **What happens:** be, keep up, despair · **To what, where:** spirits

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, need), 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:pg7277:27:96
# text = ‘Now, don’t be so foolish, my dear Prince; but keep up your spirits, for there is no need to despair.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	despair	despair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  | now | my dear Prince *obl*; foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep up** | infinitive |  | your spirits |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | no need |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **despair** | to-infinitive | no need *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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