The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 77

But we must not despair; it seems to me, after what you have told me, that something must be going to happen soon.

Who acts: we, you, something · What happens: not despair, seem, tell, go, happen · To what, where: nurse, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:1686): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 despair	cc
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 despair	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 despair	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 despair	advmod
5	despair	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 seems	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seems	expl
8	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 despair	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 seems	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 seems	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 going	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seems	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 happen	mark
25	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	xcomp
26	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 happen	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 despair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not despair	must	we				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	seem	present		nurse	me		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	you		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	go	must · progressive	something				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	happen	to-infinitive	something not said here			soon property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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