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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 130

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‘If you will stay with me,’ said the grand duke, ‘you shall have fifty ducats a year, besides a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stay, say, have, beside · **To what, where:** grand duke, fifty ducats, new coat · **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 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), 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:pg641:27:130
# text = ‘If you will stay with me,’ said the grand duke, ‘you shall have fifty ducats a year, besides a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
19	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you |  |  |  |  | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the grand duke |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | shall | you | fifty ducats  a year |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ducat=Patient |
| 4 | **beside** | present | you *not said here* | a new coat and a couple of pairs of trousers |  |  |  |  | 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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