--- title: Won’t you give that to me: you are sure to get a good dinner at the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Won’t you give that to me: you are sure to get a good dinner at the palace.’ Who acts: you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 65 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 65 Won’t you give that to me: you are sure to get a good dinner at the palace.’ **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not give, be, get · **To what, where:** that, me, good dinner, palace 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:24:65 # text = Won’t you give that to me: you are sure to get a good dinner at the palace.’ 1 Wo wo INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **give** | present | you | that | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to i=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a good dinner | | the palace | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme at palace=Asset | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/66/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)