--- title: Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,’ he added in a low voice to the head cook, ‘I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck’s marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal-well.’ Who acts: you, me, piec --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/108/) [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/) / [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/) / 108 # The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 108 Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,’ he added in a low voice to the head cook, ‘I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck’s marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal-well.’ **Who acts:** you, me, piece, I, herb · **What happens:** let, have, add, want, call · **To what, where:** me, eggs, low voice, four different kinds, heal · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, piece, I), 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:pg641:27:108 # text = Let me have some eggs, a piece of wild boar, and such and such roots and herbs for the soup; and as for the dumplings,’ he added in a low voice to the head cook, ‘I shall want four different kinds of meat, some wine, a duck’s marrow, some ginger, and a herb called heal-well.’ 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 soup soup NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 dumplings dumpling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 46 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 nummod _ _ 47 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 53 det _ _ 53 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ’s 's PART POS _ 56 case _ _ 58 marrow marrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 61 det _ _ 61 ginger ginger NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 64 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 nsubj _ _ 66 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 65 acl _ _ 67 heal heal NOUN NN Number=Sing 66 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 68 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 69 well well INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 70 . . PUNCT . _ 69 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 71 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | | such roots for the soup and herbs *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | infinitive | me *not said here* | some eggs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | | 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | piece | | | a low voice | | for the dumplings; to the head cook | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to cook=Co-Patient | | 4 | **want** | shall | I | four different kinds of meat and some wine and a duck's marrow some ginger | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | | 5 | **call** | participle | a herb *not said here* | heal | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/109/) - ↑ back to [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/27/)