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title: ‘I must be rubbed down morning and evening with rain water, my barle… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I must be rubbed down morning and evening with rain water, my barley must be boiled in milk, because of my bad teeth, and my feet must be washed in oil.’ 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 pragmatics of 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 78

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‘I must be rubbed down morning and evening with rain water, my barley must be boiled in milk, because of my bad teeth, and my feet must be washed in oil.’

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**What happens:** rub down, boil, wash · **To what, where:** I, barley, feet, oil

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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: 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:pg641:38:78
# text = ‘I must be rubbed down morning and evening with rain water, my barley must be boiled in milk, because of my bad teeth, and my feet must be washed in oil.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub down** | must · passive |  | I |  |  | morning |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **boil** | must · passive |  | my barley |  |  |  | because my bad teeth; in milk | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in milk=Instrument |
| 3 | **wash** | must · passive |  | my feet |  | oil |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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