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title: The master sat at table alone, and invited neither his new servant n… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The master sat at table alone, and invited neither his new servant nor the maid to eat with him. Who acts: master. 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 86

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The master sat at table alone, and invited neither his new servant nor the maid to eat with him.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** sit, invite, eat · **To what, where:** table, new servant

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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 (master), 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:pg641:9:86
# text = The master sat at table alone, and invited neither his new servant nor the maid to eat with him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc:preconj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the master |  |  | table |  | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at table=Location |
| 2 | **invite** | past | the master *not said here* | master's new servant nor the maid |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with master | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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