--- title: For many days Dotterine wandered from one place to another without f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: For many days Dotterine wandered from one place to another without finding shelter, and though the food which she got from the basket prevented her from starving, she was glad enough to take service in a peasant’s house till brighter days dawned. Who acts: Dotterine, food. A sentence of «The Violet --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/) / 98 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 98 For many days Dotterine wandered from one place to another without finding shelter, and though the food which she got from the basket prevented her from starving, she was glad enough to take service in a peasant’s house till brighter days dawned. **Who acts:** Dotterine, food · **What happens:** wander, find, get, prevent, starve, be · **To what, where:** one place, shelter, basket, Dotterine, service, house 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 (Dotterine, food), 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:pg641:12:98 # text = For many days Dotterine wandered from one place to another without finding shelter, and though the food which she got from the basket prevented her from starving, she was glad enough to take service in a peasant’s house till brighter days dawned. 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 Dotterine Dotterine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 5 obl _ _ 11 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 13 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 16 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 prevented prevent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 from from SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 starving starve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 33 enough enough ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 36 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 42 till till ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 brighter bright ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 44 amod _ _ 44 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 45 dawned dawn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wander** | past | Dotterine | | | one place | day | to another | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to another=Destination | | 2 | **find** | gerund | Dotterine *not said here* | shelter | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic | | 3 | **get** | past | the food | | | the basket | | | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from basket=Destination | | 4 | **prevent** | past | the food | Dotterine | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | | 5 | **starve** | gerund | the food *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | past | Dotterine | | | | | enough, glad *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Dotterine *not said here* | service | | a peasant's house | day | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in house=Location | | 8 | **dawn** | participle | | brighter days *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/99/) - ↑ back to [The Child Who Came From an Egg](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/12/)