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title: “I want you to dress every dish without a mite o' salt.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I want you to dress every dish without a mite o' salt.” Who acts: maid, you. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 84

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“I want you to dress every dish without a mite o' salt.”

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**Who acts:** maid, you · **What happens:** want, dress · **To what, where:** you, dish

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid, you), 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:pg7439:15:84
# text = “I want you to dress every dish without a mite o' salt.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	dress	dress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	mite	mite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** *in a quote* | present | maid | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | every dish |  |  |  | without a o salt | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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