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title: Now the three days’ service which were to be reckoned as a year were… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the three days’ service which were to be reckoned as a year were over, and the only thing that disturbed Stan was, how to get all those ducats back to his home! Who acts: only thing, three days. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 150

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Now the three days’ service which were to be reckoned as a year were over, and the only thing that disturbed Stan was, how to get all those ducats back to his home!

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**Who acts:** only thing, three days · **What happens:** reckon, be, disturb, service · **To what, where:** service, Stan

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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 (only thing, three days), 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:pg641:13:150
# text = Now the three days’ service which were to be reckoned as a year were over, and the only thing that disturbed Stan was, how to get all those ducats back to his home!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:outer	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	disturbed	disturb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · passive |  | the three days's service |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | year | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **disturb** | past | the only thing | Stan |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus stan=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the only thing |  |  |  |  | get *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **service** |  | the three days |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act 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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