--- title: “Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King that t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King that the meadow you mow belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as herbs for the pot.” Who acts: Good people, you, meadow. 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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 (Good people, you, meadow), 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:pg503:21:39 # text = “Good people, you who are mowing, if you do not tell the King that the meadow you mow belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall be chopped as small as herbs for the pot.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 mowing mow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 mow mow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Marquis Marquis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Carabas Carabas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 chopped chop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 34 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obl _ _ 36 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mow** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Good people you | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | the King | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 3 | **mow** *in a quote* | present | you | the meadow *not said here* | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient | | 4 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | the meadow | | my Lord Marquis of Carabas | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **chop** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | you | | | | as small; as herbs; for the pot | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/40/) - ↑ back to [The Master Cat; Or, Puss in Boots](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/21/)