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title: At last he jumped angrily out of bed to go in search of the culprits… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he jumped angrily out of bed to go in search of the culprits, but only found an empty house, and beds that had never been slept in. Who acts: prince. 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 130

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At last he jumped angrily out of bed to go in search of the culprits, but only found an empty house, and beds that had never been slept in.

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** jump, go, find, not sleep in, search · **To what, where:** last, search, empty house, beds, culprits

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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 (prince), 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:pg641:10:130
# text = At last he jumped angrily out of bed to go in search of the culprits, but only found an empty house, and beds that had never been slept in.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	culprits	culprit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | prince |  |  | last |  | out bed; angrily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at last=Trajectory out bed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* |  |  | search of the culprits |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | prince *not said here* | a empty house |  |  |  | beds *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **sleep in** | past · perfect · passive |  | beds |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **search** |  |  | the culprits |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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