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title: The young man nearly jumped into the air for joy, but, remembering t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man nearly jumped into the air for joy, but, remembering the rules of the house, he managed to keep still. Who acts: young man, maiden, house. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 102

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The young man nearly jumped into the air for joy, but, remembering the rules of the house, he managed to keep still.

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**Who acts:** young man, maiden, house · **What happens:** jump, remember, manage, keep, rule · **To what, where:** air, rules

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, maiden, house), 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:pg641:10:102
# text = The young man nearly jumped into the air for joy, but, remembering the rules of the house, he managed to keep still.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	managed	manage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | into the air *result*; for joy; nearly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund | maiden *not said here* | the rules of the house |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 3 | **manage** | past | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** | to-infinitive | maiden *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rule** |  | the house |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=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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