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title: Then Stan seated himself on the sack of provisions, and remained qui… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Stan seated himself on the sack of provisions, and remained quietly watching the setting moon. Who acts: Stan. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 103

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Then Stan seated himself on the sack of provisions, and remained quietly watching the setting moon.

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**Who acts:** Stan · **What happens:** seat, remain, watch · **To what, where:** Stan, sack, setting moon

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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:pg641:13:103
# text = Then Stan seated himself on the sack of provisions, and remained quietly watching the setting moon.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past | Stan | Stan |  | the sack of provisions | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 2 | **remain** | past | Stan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | Stan *not said here* | the setting moon |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |

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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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