--- title: And the master told me to take some red millet and make you gruel, b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And the master told me to take some red millet and make you gruel, but the mistress said, ‘Eh, master, the gazelle is the apple of your eye; you have no child, this gazelle is like your child; so this gazelle is not one to be done evil to. Who acts: master, you, mistress, gazelle. 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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, you, mistress, gazelle), 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:pg641:15:226 # text = And the master told me to take some red millet and make you gruel, but the mistress said, ‘Eh, master, the gazelle is the apple of your eye; you have no child, this gazelle is like your child; so this gazelle is not one to be done evil to. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 millet millet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 gruel gruel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mistress mistress NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Eh eh INTJ UH _ 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 47 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 48 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 49 det _ _ 49 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 nsubj:pass _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 55 mark _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 56 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 xcomp _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 56 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the master | | me | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the master *not said here* | some red millet | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millet=Theme | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | the master *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **gruel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mistress | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | the gazelle | the apple | | | | of your eye | tree rules | | 7 | **have** | present | you | no child and your child | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 8 | **is** | present | this gazelle | | | | | like your child | tree rules | | 9 | **not** **is a** | present | this gazelle | one | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **do** | to-infinitive · passive | | one | | | | evil *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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 225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/225/) - next →: [sentence 227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/227/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)