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title: One morning the empress told him that she was going to take a walk b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning the empress told him that she was going to take a walk by herself, and that she would leave the keys of twelve cellars to his care. Who acts: empress, prince. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 35

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One morning the empress told him that she was going to take a walk by herself, and that she would leave the keys of twelve cellars to his care.

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**Who acts:** empress, prince · **What happens:** tell, go, take, leave, care · **To what, where:** prince, walk, keys, care · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (empress, prince), 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:pg641:7:35
# text = One morning the empress told him that she was going to take a walk by herself, and that she would leave the keys of twelve cellars to his care.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the empress |  | prince |  | morning |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past · progressive | empress |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | empress *not said here* | a walk |  |  |  | by empress | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | would | empress | the keys of twelve cellars | prince's care |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent key=Theme to care=Recipient |
| 5 | **care** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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