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title: The old woman was so laughed at that she had to hold her tongue and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman was so laughed at that she had to hold her tongue and obey her husband ever after, and the man bought wares with part of the treasure and moved into the town, where he opened a shop, and prospered, and spent the rest of his days in peace. Who acts: woman, man, husband. A sentence of «T
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 113

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The old woman was so laughed at that she had to hold her tongue and obey her husband ever after, and the man bought wares with part of the treasure and moved into the town, where he opened a shop, and prospered, and spent the rest of his days in peace.

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**Who acts:** woman, man, husband · **What happens:** laugh, have, hold, obey, buy, move · **To what, where:** old woman, that, tongue, husband, wares, town

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, man, husband), 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:pg641:16:113
# text = The old woman was so laughed at that she had to hold her tongue and obey her husband ever after, and the man bought wares with part of the treasure and moved into the town, where he opened a shop, and prospered, and spent the rest of his days in peace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
20	after	after	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	40	advmod	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	prospered	prosper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past · passive |  | the old woman |  | that |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | woman's tongue |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 4 | **obey** | infinitive | woman *not said here* | woman's husband |  |  |  | after *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme |
| 5 | **buy** | past | the man | wares |  |  |  | with part of the treasure | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=Theme |
| 6 | **move** | past | the man *not said here* |  |  | the town |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into town=Trajectory |
| 7 | **open** | past | husband | a shop |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shop=Theme |
| 8 | **prosper** | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **spend** | past | the man *not said here* | the rest of husband's days |  | peace |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |

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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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