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title: See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs! — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs! Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 13

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See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs!

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** lovely cabbages

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. 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.

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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:pg641:26:13
# text = See these lovely cabbages and these fresh herbs!
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | this lovely cabbages and this fresh herbs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cabbage=Stimulus |

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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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