--- title: “Therefore,” continued the old man, “you should send for a gardener… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Therefore,” continued the old man, “you should send for a gardener whose father and grandfather have been gardeners before him, and very soon your garden will be full of green grass and gay flowers, and you will enjoy its delicious fruit.” Who acts: you, garden. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:2:7 # text = “Therefore,” continued the old man, “you should send for a gardener whose father and grandfather have been gardeners before him, and very soon your garden will be full of green grass and gay flowers, and you will enjoy its delicious fruit.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Therefore therefore ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 send send VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 grandfather grandfather NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 cop _ _ 23 gardeners gardener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 24 before before ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 gay gay ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 46 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 47 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** | past | | the old man | | | | therefore *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 2 | **send** *in a quote* | should | you | | | | before man | for a gardener | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | gardeners | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | your garden | | | | | of green grass and gay flowers; full, soon *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | future | you | garden's delicious fruit | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/8/) - ↑ back to [The Bronze Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/2/)