--- title: ‘The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite comple… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite complete--as I expected.’ Who acts: Suzeraine, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/68/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/) / 68 # The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 68 ‘The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite complete--as I expected.’ **Who acts:** Suzeraine, I · **What happens:** make, not be, expect · **To what, where:** dish 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 (Suzeraine, 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:pg641:28:68 # text = ‘The dish is very nicely made, but the Suzeraine is not quite complete--as I expected.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 nicely nicely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Suzeraine Suzeraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 quite quite ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 expected expect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present · passive | | the dish | | | | nicely *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | the Suzeraine | | | | | complete *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **expect** | past | I | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/69/) - ↑ back to [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/)