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title: ‘It is a bargain,’ replied Stan, though at the moment he did not kno… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 53

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‘It is a bargain,’ replied Stan, though at the moment he did not know how, supposing he DID come off the victor, he would ever be able to drive so large a flock home.

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**Who acts:** herd, bargain, Stan · **What happens:** be, reply, not know, suppose, come off, drive · **To what, where:** bargain, victor, large flock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (herd, bargain, 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:pg641:13:53
# text = ‘It is a bargain,’ replied Stan, though at the moment he did not know how, supposing he DID come off the victor, he would ever be able to drive so large a flock home.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	DID	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	home	home	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | herd | a bargain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | a bargain |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Stan |  |  |  | moment |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **suppose** | gerund | Stan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come off** | past · do-support | Stan | the victor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | would | Stan |  |  |  | ever | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **drive** | to-infinitive | Stan *not said here* | a large flock |  |  |  | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory |

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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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