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title: But now I too have grown old, and my master has forgotten me, and th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But now I too have grown old, and my master has forgotten me, and there is no reason to care whether my coat is dull or shining. Who acts: I, master, reason, coat. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 75

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But now I too have grown old, and my master has forgotten me, and there is no reason to care whether my coat is dull or shining.

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**Who acts:** I, master, reason, coat · **What happens:** grow, forget, be, care, shine · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, master, reason, coat), 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:pg641:38:75
# text = But now I too have grown old, and my master has forgotten me, and there is no reason to care whether my coat is dull or shining.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | now | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | present · perfect | my master | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | no reason |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **care** | to-infinitive | no reason *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | my coat |  |  |  |  | dull *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund | my coat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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