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title: “Dreams go by contraries,” said Mr. Fox; “but tell us your dream, an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dreams go by contraries,” said Mr. Fox; “but tell us your dream, and your sweet voice will make the time pass till the happy hour comes.” Who acts: Dreams, Mr. Fox, sweet voice, happy hour. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., with its dependenc
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 17

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“Dreams go by contraries,” said Mr. Fox; “but tell us your dream, and your sweet voice will make the time pass till the happy hour comes.”

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**Who acts:** Dreams, Mr. Fox, sweet voice, happy hour, your · **What happens:** go, say, tell, make, pass, come · **To what, where:** dream, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dreams, Mr. Fox, sweet voice, happy hour), 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:pg7439:31:17
# text = “Dreams go by contraries,” said Mr. Fox; “but tell us your dream, and your sweet voice will make the time pass till the happy hour comes.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	contraries	contrary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
27	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Dreams |  |  |  |  | by contraries | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by contrary=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mr. Fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your dream | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient dream=Topic |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | your sweet voice |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** *in a quote* | infinitive | your sweet voice *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the happy hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **dream** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «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.

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