--- title: By sunset, it was back again in its stall, and then came the master… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By sunset, it was back again in its stall, and then came the master and said, with a frown, ‘Were you really so clever yourself, or did somebody tell you what to do?’ Who acts: thread, stall, somebody. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, stall, somebody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:10:85 # text = By sunset, it was back again in its stall, and then came the master and said, with a frown, ‘Were you really so clever yourself, or did somebody tell you what to do?’ 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 14 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 frown frown NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 27 really really ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 30 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 somebody somebody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 35 nsubj _ _ 35 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 iobj _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 39 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ? ? PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | thread | | | thread's stall | again; sunset | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | past | | the master | | | then | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | thread's stall | | | | | yourself *obl*; clever *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | somebody | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/86/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Prince, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/10/)