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title: Suppose you enter her service for three days, which are as long as o… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose you enter her service for three days, which are as long as one of your years, and she will pay you each day seven sacks full of ducats.’ Who acts: you, three days, mother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 76

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Suppose you enter her service for three days, which are as long as one of your years, and she will pay you each day seven sacks full of ducats.’

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**Who acts:** you, three days, mother · **What happens:** suppose, enter, be, pay, service · **To what, where:** you, service

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, three days, mother), 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:pg641:13:76
# text = Suppose you enter her service for three days, which are as long as one of your years, and she will pay you each day seven sacks full of ducats.’
1	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | infinitive | you *not said here* | mother's service |  |  | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | three days |  |  |  |  | as one of your years; long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | future | mother | you |  |  | day |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset |
| 5 | **service** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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