--- title: Then the boy turned to his father and said, ‘Go in peace, dear fathe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the boy turned to his father and said, ‘Go in peace, dear father, and give my mother greeting and tell her not to be anxious any more, for she can keep all her children.’ Who acts: boy, Mother, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Mother, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:41:213 # text = Then the boy turned to his father and said, ‘Go in peace, dear father, and give my mother greeting and tell her not to be anxious any more, for she can keep all her children.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 greeting greeting NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 anxious anxious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 advcl _ _ 31 any any ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | the boy | | | | then | to earth's father *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | | | | peace and dear father | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | | 4 | **give** | infinitive | | my mother greeting | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | Mother | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | | | | | | anxious *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **keep** | can | Mother | Mother's children | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 8 | **greet** | | my | | | | | | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/212/) - next →: [sentence 214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/214/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Halfman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/41/)