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title: Not a day passed without her scolding him and calling him names, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not a day passed without her scolding him and calling him names, and indeed sometimes she would take the broom from behind the stove and beat him with it. Who acts: day, life. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 2

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Not a day passed without her scolding him and calling him names, and indeed sometimes she would take the broom from behind the stove and beat him with it.

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**Who acts:** day, life · **What happens:** not pass, scold, call, take, beat · **To what, where:** man, broom, stove · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, life), 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:pg641:17:2
# text = Not a day passed without her scolding him and calling him names, and indeed sometimes she would take the broom from behind the stove and beat him with it.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	scolding	scold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pass** | past | a day |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scold** | gerund | life | man |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | life *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme name=Result |
| 4 | **take** | would | life | the broom |  | the stove |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent broom=Theme from stove=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **beat** | infinitive | life *not said here* | man |  |  |  | with stove | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with it=Instrument |

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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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