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title: “You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid!” said the gian… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid!” said the giant, “and if you have I will wring your neck.” Who acts: You, I. 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 94

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“You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid!” said the giant, “and if you have I will wring your neck.”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** talk, say, have, wring · **To what, where:** giant, neck · **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, I), 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:pg503:17:94
# text = “You have certainly been talking with my Master-maid!” said the giant, “and if you have I will wring your neck.”
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	14	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	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	wring	wring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	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 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wring** *in a quote* | future | I | your neck |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |

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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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