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title: You need not remain any longer in the service of that stingy ministe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You need not remain any longer in the service of that stingy minister, but when you get home to-morrow go at once to the north corner of the church, and there you will find a large stone built into the wall, but not cemented like the rest. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 118

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You need not remain any longer in the service of that stingy minister, but when you get home to-morrow go at once to the north corner of the church, and there you will find a large stone built into the wall, but not cemented like the rest.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** not remain, get, find, build, not cement, service · **To what, where:** large stone, wall, stingy minister

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg641:33:118
# text = You need not remain any longer in the service of that stingy minister, but when you get home to-morrow go at once to the north corner of the church, and there you will find a large stone built into the wall, but not cemented like the rest.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	home	home	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	go	go	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	cemented	cement	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remain** | present | You |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | you |  |  |  |  | to morrow go *result*; home *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to go=Result |
| 3 | **find** | future | you | a large stone |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  | a large stone *not said here* |  | the wall |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into wall=Product |
| 5 | **not** **cement** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the rest | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **service** |  |  | that stingy minister |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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