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title: Then learned men collected and printed the country people’s stories,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then learned men collected and printed the country people’s stories, and these we have translated, to amuse children. Who acts: men. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, sentence 19

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Then learned men collected and printed the country people’s stories, and these we have translated, to amuse children.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** learn, collect, print, translate, amuse · **To what, where:** stories, these, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Violet Fairy Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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:pg641:1:19
# text = Then learned men collected and printed the country people’s stories, and these we have translated, to amuse children.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	printed	print	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	amuse	amuse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **collect** | past | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **print** | past |  | the country people's stories |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 4 | **translate** | present · perfect · passive |  | these |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **amuse** | to-infinitive |  | children |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus child=Experiencer |

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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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