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title: ‘I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the hea… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the head cook he may find me of some use.’ Who acts: I, you, Jem, some. 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 every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 85

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‘I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the head cook he may find me of some use.’

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**Who acts:** I, you, Jem, some · **What happens:** be, take, find, use · **To what, where:** experienced cook, me, head cook · **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 (I, you, Jem, some), 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:pg641:27:85
# text = ‘I am an experienced cook, and if you will kindly take me to the head cook he may find me of some use.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
25	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | a experienced cook |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | future | you | me |  | the head cook |  | kindly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to cook=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | may | Jem | me |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | present | some |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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