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title: My waiting-maid, who teaches Kisika all sorts of fine handiwork, sha… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My waiting-maid, who teaches Kisika all sorts of fine handiwork, shall teach you too.’ Who acts: waiting maid. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 85

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My waiting-maid, who teaches Kisika all sorts of fine handiwork, shall teach you too.’

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**Who acts:** waiting maid · **What happens:** teach, sort · **To what, where:** sorts, Kisika, you, fine handiwork

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting maid), 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:pg641:2:85
# text = My waiting-maid, who teaches Kisika all sorts of fine handiwork, shall teach you too.’
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	handiwork	handiwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | My waiting maid | all sorts of fine handiwork | Kisika |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kisika=Recipient sort=Topic |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | shall | My waiting maid |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | fine handiwork |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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