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title: She herself stayed behind in a peasant’s hut, so that father and son… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She herself stayed behind in a peasant’s hut, so that father and son might meet alone. Who acts: maiden, father. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 68

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She herself stayed behind in a peasant’s hut, so that father and son might meet alone.

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**Who acts:** maiden, father · **What happens:** stay, meet · **To what, where:** hut

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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 (maiden, father), 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:pg641:11:68
# text = She herself stayed behind in a peasant’s hut, so that father and son might meet alone.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | maiden |  |  | a peasant's hut |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
| 2 | **meet** | might | father and son |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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