The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 84
‘Do not be cast down,’ she said with a smile; ‘if that is how the affair stands all will go well.
Who acts: light, that, affair, all · What happens: not cast down, say, be, stand, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, that, affair, all), 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:pg641:1637): 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 cast | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cast | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cast | aux:pass |
| 5 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 cast | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cast | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 smile | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 smile | det |
| 13 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 how | mark |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 how | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 how | cop |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 go | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 affair | det |
| 21 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stands | nsubj |
| 22 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 how | acl:relcl |
| 23 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | parataxis |
| 26 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cast down | infinitive · passive · do-support | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | light | with a smile | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | present | the affair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | future | all | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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