--- title: Know, then, that a herb is wanting called Relish, which is not known… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Know, then, that a herb is wanting called Relish, which is not known in this country, but which gives the pasty its peculiar flavour, and without which your master will never taste it to perfection.’ Who acts: you, master, herb. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, master, herb), 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:pg641:28:77 # text = Know, then, that a herb is wanting called Relish, which is not known in this country, but which gives the pasty its peculiar flavour, and without which your master will never taste it to perfection.’ 1 Know know VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 parataxis _ _ 11 Relish Relish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pasty pasty NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 peculiar peculiar NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 flavour flavour NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 without without ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obl _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 perfection perfection NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **call** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **not** **know** | present · passive | | | | this country | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **give** | present | | the pasty | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pasty=Recipient flavour=Theme | | 5 | **not** **taste** | future | your master | flavour | | | | to perfection | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | | 6 | **flavour** | | herb | | | | | | nom flavour «state transitive»: poss=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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/78/) - ↑ back to [The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/28/)