--- title: ‘I gave my head-gardener the strictest orders to watch the trees car… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I gave my head-gardener the strictest orders to watch the trees carefully, for the magician had warned my father that if one unripe fruit were plucked from the tree, all the rest would become rotten at once. Who acts: I, magician, rest. 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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 (I, magician, rest), 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:pg640:30:12 # text = ‘I gave my head-gardener the strictest orders to watch the trees carefully, for the magician had warned my father that if one unripe fruit were plucked from the tree, all the rest would become rotten at once. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 strictest strict ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 warned warn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 26 one one PRON PRP PronType=Ind 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 unripe unripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 plucked pluck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 advcl _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 40 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 at at ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | I | the strictest orders | my head gardener | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Recipient order=Theme | | 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the trees | | | | carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 3 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past · perfect | the magician | | my father | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **pluck** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | one | | the tree | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from tree=Source | | 5 | **become** | would | all rest | | | | | rotten *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/13/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)