--- title: “Well,” says his father, “I'm sorry to see you going away, but if yo… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Well,” says his father, “I'm sorry to see you going away, but if you've made your mind to go, it's better for you to go.” Who acts: father, you, your. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/) / 12 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 12 “Well,” says his father, “I'm sorry to see you going away, but if you've made your mind to go, it's better for you to go.” **Who acts:** father, you, your · **What happens:** say, be, see, go away, make, go · **To what, where:** you, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:20:12 # text = “Well,” says his father, “I'm sorry to see you going away, but if you've made your mind to go, it's better for you to go.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 xcomp _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 ccomp _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | God's father | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | God's father *= father* | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | God's father *= father* *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go away** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | you | your mind | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Product | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your mind *not said here* | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **mind** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/13/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)