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title: So they went sorrowing home, and when they were out of sight the ros… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went sorrowing home, and when they were out of sight the rose bush and rose returned to their proper shapes and walked all the faster for the little rest they had had. Who acts: stream, rose bush. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3, with its dep
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 29

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So they went sorrowing home, and when they were out of sight the rose bush and rose returned to their proper shapes and walked all the faster for the little rest they had had.

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**Who acts:** stream, rose bush · **What happens:** go, sorrow, be, return, walk, have · **To what, where:** sight, little rest

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream, rose bush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:890`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:11:29
# text = So they went sorrowing home, and when they were out of sight the rose bush and rose returned to their proper shapes and walked all the faster for the little rest they had had.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | stream |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sorrow** | gerund | stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | stream |  |  | sight |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **return** | past | the rose bush and rose |  |  |  |  | to stream's proper shapes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result |
| 5 | **walk** | past | the rose bush and rose *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the little rest; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past · perfect | stream | the little rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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