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title: Then it said, ‘Master, that is the house we are going to, and you ar… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then it said, ‘Master, that is the house we are going to, and you are not a poor man any longer: even your name is new.’ Who acts: way, that, we, you. 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 87

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Then it said, ‘Master, that is the house we are going to, and you are not a poor man any longer: even your name is new.’

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**Who acts:** way, that, we, you, name, your · **What happens:** say, be, go, not be, name · **To what, where:** Master, house, poor man · **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 (way, that, we, 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:pg641:15:87
# text = Then it said, ‘Master, that is the house we are going to, and you are not a poor man any longer: even your name is new.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
24	any	any	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	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 | way | Master |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present | that | the house |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | we | the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | you | a poor man |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | your name |  |  |  |  | new *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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