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title: Mr. W. A. Craigie translated from the Scandinavian, ‘Jasper who herd… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. W. A. Craigie translated from the Scandinavian, ‘Jasper who herded the Hares.’ Who acts: W., Jasper. 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 27

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Mr. W. A. Craigie translated from the Scandinavian, ‘Jasper who herded the Hares.’

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**Who acts:** W., Jasper · **What happens:** translate, herd · **To what, where:** Scandinavian, Hares

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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 (W., Jasper), 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:pg641:1:27
# text = Mr. W. A. Craigie translated from the Scandinavian, ‘Jasper who herded the Hares.’
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	W.	W.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Craigie	Craigie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	translated	translate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Scandinavian	Scandinavian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Jasper	Jasper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	herded	herd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **translate** | past | W.  Mr. |  |  | the Scandinavian |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Patient from scandinavian=Initial\_State |
| 2 | **herd** | past | Jasper | the Hares |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hare=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:** «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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