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title: The girl said: ‘You have not been sent here to collect rents, but fo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl said: ‘You have not been sent here to collect rents, but for your own destruction, and that the serpent may devour you.’ Who acts: girl, serpent, your. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 114

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The girl said: ‘You have not been sent here to collect rents, but for your own destruction, and that the serpent may devour you.’

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**Who acts:** girl, serpent, your · **What happens:** say, not send, collect, devour, destroy · **To what, where:** You, rents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, serpent, your), 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:pg641:4:114
# text = The girl said: ‘You have not been sent here to collect rents, but for your own destruction, and that the serpent may devour you.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	rents	rent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the girl |  |  |  |  | for your own destruction | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **send** | present · perfect · passive |  | You |  | here |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **collect** | to-infinitive |  | rents |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rent=Theme |
| 4 | **devour** | may | the serpent | you |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 5 | **destroy** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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