--- title: ‘Grieved as I was over the theft, I did not punish the gardener, of… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Grieved as I was over the theft, I did not punish the gardener, of whose fidelity I was well assured, but I determined to pluck off all the fruit in the following year before it was ripe, as I had not much belief in the magician’s warning. Who acts: I, fruit, magician. 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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, fruit, magician), 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:pg640:30:19 # text = ‘Grieved as I was over the theft, I did not punish the gardener, of whose fidelity I was well assured, but I determined to pluck off all the fruit in the following year before it was ripe, as I had not much belief in the magician’s warning. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Grieved grieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 theft theft NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 punish punish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 fidelity fidelity NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 parataxis _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 23 assured assure VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 determined determine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 off off ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 33 det:predet _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 38 before before SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 ripe ripe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 46 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’s 's PART POS _ 51 case _ _ 53 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | past | I | | | the theft | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **punish** | past · do-support | I | the gardener | | | | | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Patient | | 4 | **assure** | past · passive | | I | | | | well *property* | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 5 | **determine** | past | I | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pluck off** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all fruit | | | year | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **is** | past | fruit | | | | | ripe *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **have** | past | I | much belief | | the magician's warning | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belief=Patient | | 10 | **warn** | | the magician | | | | | | nom warning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/20/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)