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title: Shall a creature that I bought for an eighth trouble me from morning… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall a creature that I bought for an eighth trouble me from morning till night? Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 240

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Shall a creature that I bought for an eighth trouble me from morning till night?

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** creature, me

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg641:15:240
# text = Shall a creature that I bought for an eighth trouble me from morning till night?
1	Shall	shall	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	eighth	eighth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	till	till	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past | I | shall creature | me |  | morning; night | for a eighth trouble | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary that=Theme |

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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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