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title: ‘Cinders,’ said Peter promptly, and walked on, adding to himself, ‘T… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Cinders,’ said Peter promptly, and walked on, adding to himself, ‘Take that for being so inquisitive.’ Who acts: Cinders. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 29

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‘Cinders,’ said Peter promptly, and walked on, adding to himself, ‘Take that for being so inquisitive.’

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**Who acts:** Cinders · **What happens:** say, walk on, add, take, be · **To what, where:** king, that · **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 (Cinders), 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:pg641:24:29
# text = ‘Cinders,’ said Peter promptly, and walked on, adding to himself, ‘Take that for being so inquisitive.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	promptly	promptly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	inquisitive	inquisitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 | Cinders |  |  |  |  | promptly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **walk on** | past | Cinders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Cinders *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to himself=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Cinders *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | Cinders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inquisitive *property* | tree rules |

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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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