--- title: In the evening his master said, ‘To-morrow I have no special task to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In the evening his master said, ‘To-morrow I have no special task to set you, but as the girl has a great deal to do in the house you must milk the black cow for her. Who acts: master, I, girl, you. 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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 (master, I, girl, you), 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:pg641:10:27 # text = In the evening his master said, ‘To-morrow I have no special task to set you, but as the girl has a great deal to do in the house you must milk the black cow for her. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 To to ADP IN _ 11 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 16 det _ _ 15 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 acl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince's master | | | | evening | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** | present | I | no special task | | | | to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Patient | | 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result | | 4 | **have** | present | the girl | a great deal | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | a great deal *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **milk** | must | you | | | the house | | | tree rules | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/28/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Prince, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/)