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title: “You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid, for you never… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid, for you never got that out of your own head,” said the giant again. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 64

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“You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid, for you never got that out of your own head,” said the giant again.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** talk, not get, say · **To what, where:** that, own head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (You), 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:pg503:17:64
# text = “You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid, for you never got that out of your own head,” said the giant again.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | You |  |  |  |  | with my Master maid; certainly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with maid=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | past | you | that |  | your own head |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | giant *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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