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title: His scythe danced through the grass much more easily than he had hop… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His scythe danced through the grass much more easily than he had hoped, and soon he had enough to fill the manger. Who acts: scythe, maiden. 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 13

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His scythe danced through the grass much more easily than he had hoped, and soon he had enough to fill the manger.

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**Who acts:** scythe, maiden · **What happens:** dance, hope, have, fill · **To what, where:** grass, manger

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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 (scythe, maiden), 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:pg641:10:13
# text = His scythe danced through the grass much more easily than he had hoped, and soon he had enough to fill the manger.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	scythe	scythe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	manger	manger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | maiden's scythe |  |  | the grass |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Location |
| 2 | **hope** | past · perfect | maiden |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **have** | past | maiden |  |  |  |  | enough, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive | maiden *not said here* | the manger |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent manger=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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