--- title: ‘Well, trust me,’ said the master, ‘I will keep it to myself; or, if… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, trust me,’ said the master, ‘I will keep it to myself; or, if you do not like to do that, confess it to your pastor, or go into some field outside the town and dig a hole, and, after you have dug it, kneel down and whisper your secret three times into the hole. Who acts: I, you. 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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 (I, you), 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:pg641:6:15 # text = ‘Well, trust me,’ said the master, ‘I will keep it to myself; or, if you do not like to do that, confess it to your pastor, or go into some field outside the town and dig a hole, and, after you have dug it, kneel down and whisper your secret three times into the hole. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 trust trust VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 5 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 confess confess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 pastor pastor NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 outside outside ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 dig dig VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 52 after after SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 53 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 54 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 55 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 56 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 kneel kneel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 advcl _ _ 59 down down ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 whisper whisper VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 conj _ _ 62 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 63 nmod:poss _ _ 63 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obj _ _ 64 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 65 nummod _ _ 65 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obl:unmarked _ _ 66 into into ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trust** | infinitive | | me | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the master | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | future | I | secret | myself | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **not** **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 6 | **confess** | infinitive | I *not said here* | secret | your pastor | | | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to pastor=Recipient | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | | | | some field | | outside the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **dig** | infinitive | | a hole | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | | 9 | **dig** | present · perfect | you | secret | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 10 | **kneel down** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | present | you *not said here* | your secret | | the hole | time | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic into hole=Recipient | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/6/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/6/16/) - ↑ back to [The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/6/)