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title: You must undertake to cook my luncheon yourself and to direct what I… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You must undertake to cook my luncheon yourself and to direct what I shall have for dinner, and you shall be called assistant head cook.’ Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 131

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You must undertake to cook my luncheon yourself and to direct what I shall have for dinner, and you shall be called assistant head cook.’

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** undertake, cook, direct, have, call · **To what, where:** luncheon, you · **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, I), 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:pg641:27:131
# text = You must undertake to cook my luncheon yourself and to direct what I shall have for dinner, and you shall be called assistant head cook.’
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	undertake	undertake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	direct	direct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
24	assistant	assistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | must | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cook** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | my luncheon |  |  |  | yourself *obl* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent luncheon=Patient |
| 3 | **direct** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | for dinner | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 5 | **call** | shall · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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