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title: ‘Do give me one of those hares,’ she said; ‘we have just got visitor… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Do give me one of those hares,’ she said; ‘we have just got visitors who are going to stay to dinner, and there’s nothing we can give them to eat.’ Who acts: you, girl, we, visitors. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 108

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‘Do give me one of those hares,’ she said; ‘we have just got visitors who are going to stay to dinner, and there’s nothing we can give them to eat.’

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**Who acts:** you, girl, we, visitors · **What happens:** give, say, get, go, stay, eat · **To what, where:** one, visitors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, we, visitors), 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:pg641:24:108
# text = ‘Do give me one of those hares,’ she said; ‘we have just got visitors who are going to stay to dinner, and there’s nothing we can give them to eat.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	iobj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
19	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	30	obj	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	iobj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* |  | one of that hares |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | present · perfect | we | visitors |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go** | present · progressive | visitors |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | visitors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to dinner | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **give** | can | we |  | visitors *= visitor* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **eat** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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