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title: Then she vanished, and was never seen again, nor the wonder-working… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she vanished, and was never seen again, nor the wonder-working basket either; but now that Dotterine’s troubles were over she could get on without them, and she and the young king lived happily together till the end of their days. Who acts: godmother, troubles, Dotterine. A sentence of «The Vio
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 131

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Then she vanished, and was never seen again, nor the wonder-working basket either; but now that Dotterine’s troubles were over she could get on without them, and she and the young king lived happily together till the end of their days.

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**Who acts:** godmother, troubles, Dotterine · **What happens:** vanish, not see, work, get on, live, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (godmother, troubles, Dotterine), 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:pg641:12:131
# text = Then she vanished, and was never seen again, nor the wonder-working basket either; but now that Dotterine’s troubles were over she could get on without them, and she and the young king lived happily together till the end of their days.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	troubles	trouble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
30	on	on	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
40	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
41	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
42	together	together	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
43	till	till	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | godmother |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **work** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get on** | could · past | Dotterine's troubles |  |  |  | now | without maidens *= maiden* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **live** | past | godmother |  |  |  | till the end of troubles's days | happily, together *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **trouble** |  | Dotterine |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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