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title: ‘Creep inside this,’ said the master, ‘and wait while I go in and se… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Creep inside this,’ said the master, ‘and wait while I go in and see my grandmother. Who acts: Creep, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 75

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‘Creep inside this,’ said the master, ‘and wait while I go in and see my grandmother.

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**Who acts:** Creep, I · **What happens:** say, wait, go in, see · **To what, where:** master, grandmother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Creep, 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:pg641:9:75
# text = ‘Creep inside this,’ said the master, ‘and wait while I go in and see my grandmother.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Creep	creep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Creep inside this | the master and ‘ |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic |
| 2 | **wait** | infinitive | Creep inside this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go in** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive | Creep inside this *not said here* | my grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandmother=Stimulus |

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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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