The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 77

Know, then, that a herb is wanting called Relish, which is not known in this country, but which gives the pasty its peculiar flavour, and without which your master will never taste it to perfection.’

Who acts: you, master, herb · What happens: know, call, not know, give, not taste, flavour · To what, where: country, pasty, flavour · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, master, herb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Know	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Know	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 called	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 called	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 herb	det
7	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanting	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wanting	aux
9	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Know	parataxis
11	Relish	Relish	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 known	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 known	advmod
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 called	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 known	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gives	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 gives	cc
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gives	nsubj
23	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 known	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pasty	det
25	pasty	pasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gives	obj
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 flavour	nmod:poss
27	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flavour	compound
28	flavour	flavour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gives	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 taste	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 taste	cc
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 taste	obl
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 master	nmod:poss
34	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 taste	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 taste	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 taste	advmod
37	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Know	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 taste	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 perfection	case
40	perfection	perfection	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 taste	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Know	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	imperative	you not said here			then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	call	gerund · passive						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
3	not know	present · passive			this country			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
4	give	present		the pasty				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pasty=Recipient flavour=Theme
5	not taste	future	your master	flavour			to perfection	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
6	flavour		herb					nom flavour «state transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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