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title: ‘Will you stay and keep house for us, cook, make the beds, the washi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Will you stay and keep house for us, cook, make the beds, the washing, sew and knit? and if you give satisfaction and keep everything neat and clean, you shall want for nothing.’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 171

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‘Will you stay and keep house for us, cook, make the beds, the washing, sew and knit? and if you give satisfaction and keep everything neat and clean, you shall want for nothing.’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stay, keep, cook, make, sew, knit · **To what, where:** house, beds, satisfaction, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg540:47:171
# text = ‘Will you stay and keep house for us, cook, make the beds, the washing, sew and knit? and if you give satisfaction and keep everything neat and clean, you shall want for nothing.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	knit	knit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
28	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	obj	_	_
32	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | house |  |  |  | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **cook** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the beds and the washing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product |
| 5 | **sew** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **knit** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | satisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme |
| 8 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | neat *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 9 | **want** | shall | you |  |  |  |  | for nothing | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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