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title: The story of the dog and his treasure soon became known, and a neigh… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of the dog and his treasure soon became known, and a neighbour whose garden was next the old people’s grew so envious of their good luck that he could neither eat nor sleep. Who acts: story, neighbour. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its de
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 12

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The story of the dog and his treasure soon became known, and a neighbour whose garden was next the old people’s grew so envious of their good luck that he could neither eat nor sleep.

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**Who acts:** story, neighbour · **What happens:** become, know, be, eat, treasure

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, neighbour), 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:pg641:18:12
# text = The story of the dog and his treasure soon became known, and a neighbour whose garden was next the old people’s grew so envious of their good luck that he could neither eat nor sleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
19	next	next	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
36	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	37	cc	_	_
37	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the story of the dog and story's treasure |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle | the story of the dog and story's treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | a neighbour and a neighbour and a neighbour's garden's garden |  |  |  |  | envious, grow, next *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | could | story |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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