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title: ‘Give me your advice; what shall I do--have my supper as usual, or s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Give me your advice; what shall I do--have my supper as usual, or set out in pursuit of them?’ Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 67

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‘Give me your advice; what shall I do--have my supper as usual, or set out in pursuit of them?’

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** give, do, have, set out, pursue · **To what, where:** advice, me, supper, pursuit, horses

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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 (you, I), 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:pg641:7:67
# text = ‘Give me your advice; what shall I do--have my supper as usual, or set out in pursuit of them?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | your advice | me |  |  | as usual | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient advice=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | shall | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my supper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 4 | **set out** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | pursuit of horses |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pursue** |  |  | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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