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title: ‘To-morrow,’ said the old man, ‘you must bring the white-headed calf… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘To-morrow,’ said the old man, ‘you must bring the white-headed calf to the meadow, and, as you value your life, take care it does not escape from you.’ Who acts: you, care. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 75

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‘To-morrow,’ said the old man, ‘you must bring the white-headed calf to the meadow, and, as you value your life, take care it does not escape from you.’

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**Who acts:** you, care · **What happens:** say, bring, value, take, not escape · **To what, where:** old man, headed calf, meadow, life, care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, care), 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:pg641:10:75
# text = ‘To-morrow,’ said the old man, ‘you must bring the white-headed calf to the meadow, and, as you value your life, take care it does not escape from you.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	headed	headed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	value	value	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
34	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old man |  |  |  | to morrow | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | must | you | the headed calf |  | the meadow |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent calf=Theme to meadow=Destination |
| 3 | **value** | present | you | your life |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **escape** | present · do-support | care |  |  |  |  | from you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from you=Initial\_Location |

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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 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.

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