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title: Tell your father the ogre and your mother the ogress, that never mor… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell your father the ogre and your mother the ogress, that never more shall they have any children of mine.’ Who acts: you, mother. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 208

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Tell your father the ogre and your mother the ogress, that never more shall they have any children of mine.’

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**Who acts:** you, mother · **What happens:** tell, have · **To what, where:** ogre, father, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mother), 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:pg641:41:208
# text = Tell your father the ogre and your mother the ogress, that never more shall they have any children of mine.’
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:outer	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ogress	ogress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the ogre | your father |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient ogre=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | shall | your mother | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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