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title: ‘Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,’ she said; ‘… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,’ she said; ‘catch all sorts of game, and put them into one half of it, and into the other half pour water; so that there may be meat and drink for me.’ Who acts: you, lightning. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka, with
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 95

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‘Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,’ she said; ‘catch all sorts of game, and put them into one half of it, and into the other half pour water; so that there may be meat and drink for me.’

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**Who acts:** you, lightning · **What happens:** make, say, catch, put, pour, be · **To what, where:** large vessel, me, sorts, one half, water, other half · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lightning), 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:pg540:13:95
# text = ‘Make me a large vessel with a partition in the middle,’ she said; ‘catch all sorts of game, and put them into one half of it, and into the other half pour water; so that there may be meat and drink for me.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	partition	partition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	39	obl	_	_
39	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
40	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
42	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	46	mark	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	46	expl	_	_
45	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | a large vessel | me |  |  | with a partition in the middle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary vessel=Product |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | infinitive | lightning *not said here* | all sorts of game |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | lightning *not said here* | sorts *= sort* |  | one half of half |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |
| 5 | **pour** | present | lightning *not said here* | water |  | the other half |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into half=Destination |
| 6 | **is a** | infinitive | you *not said here* | meat and drink for me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | game |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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