--- title: "If you doubt, if you are in the least afraid," said the princess, l… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "If you doubt, if you are in the least afraid," said the princess, looking him in the face by the dim starlight, "you had better never have been born than to go a step nigher to the bulls." Who acts: you, princess. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess), 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:pg976:28:69 # text = "If you doubt, if you are in the least afraid," said the princess, looking him in the face by the dim starlight, "you had better never have been born than to go a step nigher to the bulls." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 doubt doubt VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 in in SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 starlight starlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 32 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 34 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 37 than than SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 nigher nigh ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 amod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 bulls bull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **doubt** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | afraid *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the princess | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **look** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | Jason | | the face | | by the dim starlight | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Attribute | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **bear** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | well *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a step | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme | 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:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/70/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Fleece., part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg976/28/)