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title: I have provided you with a wife, and have made her presents of cloth… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have provided you with a wife, and have made her presents of clothes and turbans and rare and precious things, so it is needless for you to speak.’ Who acts: I, turban, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 83

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I have provided you with a wife, and have made her presents of clothes and turbans and rare and precious things, so it is needless for you to speak.’

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**Who acts:** I, turban, you · **What happens:** provide, make, be, speak · **To what, where:** you, presents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, turban, you), 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:pg641:15:83
# text = I have provided you with a wife, and have made her presents of clothes and turbans and rare and precious things, so it is needless for you to speak.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	provided	provide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	turbans	turban	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	needless	needless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | present · perfect | I |  | you |  |  | with a wife | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with wife=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | wife's presents |  |  |  | of clothes and turbans and rare things | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset present=Product |
| 3 | **is** | present | turban |  |  |  |  | needless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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