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title: Then she told him what to put in, adding: ‘I think that will be all… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she told him what to put in, adding: ‘I think that will be all right, and if some trifle is left out perhaps they won’t find it out.’ Who acts: visit, I, that, dishes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 60

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Then she told him what to put in, adding: ‘I think that will be all right, and if some trifle is left out perhaps they won’t find it out.’

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**Who acts:** visit, I, that, dishes · **What happens:** tell, put in, add, think, be, leave out · **To what, where:** duke, trifle · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (visit, I, that, dishes), 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:pg641:28:60
# text = Then she told him what to put in, adding: ‘I think that will be all right, and if some trifle is left out perhaps they won’t find it out.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	trifle	trifle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | visit |  | duke |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **put in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent what=Goal |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | visit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | future | that |  |  |  |  | all, right *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **leave out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | some trifle |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **find out** | future | dishes *= dish* | trifle |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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