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title: Then he drove back to the forest and hung the pike up at the very to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he drove back to the forest and hung the pike up at the very top of a tree, and tied up the hare in a fishing net and fastened it on the edge of a little stream, not troubling himself to think how unpleasant such a wet spot was likely to be to the hare. Who acts: foot, wet spot. A sentence of «
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 14

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Then he drove back to the forest and hung the pike up at the very top of a tree, and tied up the hare in a fishing net and fastened it on the edge of a little stream, not troubling himself to think how unpleasant such a wet spot was likely to be to the hare.

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**Who acts:** foot, wet spot · **What happens:** drive back, hang up, tie up, fasten, not trouble, think · **To what, where:** forest, pike, top, hare, fishing net, foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (foot, wet spot), 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:pg641:16:14
# text = Then he drove back to the forest and hung the pike up at the very top of a tree, and tied up the hare in a fishing net and fastened it on the edge of a little stream, not troubling himself to think how unpleasant such a wet spot was likely to be to the hare.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	troubling	trouble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
46	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
47	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
48	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	51	det:predet	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	ccomp	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	cop	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive back** | past | foot |  |  | the forest | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hang up** | past | foot *not said here* | the pike |  | the top of a tree |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pike=Theme at top=Destination |
| 3 | **tie up** | participle | foot *not said here* | the hare |  | a fishing net |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient |
| 4 | **fasten** | past | foot *not said here* | hare |  |  |  | on the edge of a little stream | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient on edge=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **not** **trouble** | gerund | foot *not said here* | foot |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | unpleasant *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | such wet spot |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | such wet spot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the hare | tree rules |

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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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