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title: ‘There, my boy,’ said she, ‘eat this soup and then you’ll have every… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘There, my boy,’ said she, ‘eat this soup and then you’ll have everything which pleased you so much about me. Who acts: boy, 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 68

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‘There, my boy,’ said she, ‘eat this soup and then you’ll have everything which pleased you so much about me.

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**Who acts:** boy, you · **What happens:** say, eat, have · **To what, where:** soup, everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, 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:pg641:26:68
# text = ‘There, my boy,’ said she, ‘eat this soup and then you’ll have everything which pleased you so much about me.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | my boy |  |  | there |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive |  | this soup |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | future | you | everything |  |  | then | about me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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