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title: But what I set you to do must be done both well and thoroughly, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But what I set you to do must be done both well and thoroughly, and you must on no account go into any of the rooms which lead out of the room in which you slept last night. Who acts: I, you, rooms. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its dependency tree
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 6

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But what I set you to do must be done both well and thoroughly, and you must on no account go into any of the rooms which lead out of the room in which you slept last night.

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**Who acts:** I, you, rooms · **What happens:** set, do, go, lead, sleep · **To what, where:** you, account, room

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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 (I, you, rooms), 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:pg503:17:6
# text = But what I set you to do must be done both well and thoroughly, and you must on no account go into any of the rooms which lead out of the room in which you slept last night.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	both	both	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | must · passive |  |  |  |  |  | both, well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | must | you |  |  | no account |  | into any | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into any=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **lead** | present | the rooms |  |  | the room |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent out room=Destination |
| 6 | **sleep** | past | you |  |  | the room | night |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |

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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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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