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title: But as you are in the highest place you shall make a more dignified… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as you are in the highest place you shall make a more dignified exit, and follow them through the window!’ Who acts: you, highest place. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 30

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But as you are in the highest place you shall make a more dignified exit, and follow them through the window!’

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**Who acts:** you, highest place · **What happens:** be, make, follow · **To what, where:** highest place, dignified exit, stairs, window

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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, highest place), 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:pg641:33:30
# text = But as you are in the highest place you shall make a more dignified exit, and follow them through the window!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	exit	exit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  | the highest place |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | shall | the highest place | a dignified exit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset exit=Product |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | the highest place *not said here* | stairs *= stair* |  | the window |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme through window=Trajectory |

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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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