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title: ‘I told you that you were not to call me unless you were in the utmo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I told you that you were not to call me unless you were in the utmost need,’ he said to Minnikin, ‘and there is not even so much as a midge here who can do you any harm!’ and with that he gave Minnikin such a blow that he rolled over on the grass. Who acts: I, you, Minnikin. A sentence of «The Red 
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# The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 58

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‘I told you that you were not to call me unless you were in the utmost need,’ he said to Minnikin, ‘and there is not even so much as a midge here who can do you any harm!’ and with that he gave Minnikin such a blow that he rolled over on the grass.

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**Who acts:** I, you, Minnikin · **What happens:** tell, not call, be, say, do, give · **To what, where:** you, me, utmost need, Minnikin, blow, grass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Minnikin), 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:pg540:46:58
# text = ‘I told you that you were not to call me unless you were in the utmost need,’ he said to Minnikin, ‘and there is not even so much as a midge here who can do you any harm!’ and with that he gave Minnikin such a blow that he rolled over on the grass.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	ccomp	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	midge	midge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	43	det	_	_
43	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
51	Minnikin	Minnikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	iobj	_	_
52	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	54	det:predet	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
58	over	over	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
59	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **call** *not said to happen* | past | you |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | the utmost need |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Minnikin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  | Minnikin | here |  | as a midge; much *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | can |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **give** | past | Minnikin | such blow | Minnikin |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent minnikin=Recipient blow=Theme |
| 8 | **roll over** | past | Minnikin |  |  | the grass |  | over *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory |

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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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