--- title: Then, when he heard that the Daimio, or great lord to whom this part… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then, when he heard that the Daimio, or great lord to whom this part of the country belonged, was expected at the capital, he was to carry the ashes to the high road, through which the procession would have to pass. Who acts: man, part, procession. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/) / 39 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 39 Then, when he heard that the Daimio, or great lord to whom this part of the country belonged, was expected at the capital, he was to carry the ashes to the high road, through which the procession would have to pass. **Who acts:** man, part, procession · **What happens:** hear, belong, expect, be, have, pass · **To what, where:** Daimio, capital · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (man, part, procession), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:18:39 # text = Then, when he heard that the Daimio, or great lord to whom this part of the country belonged, was expected at the capital, he was to carry the ashes to the high road, through which the procession would have to pass. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Daimio Daimio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nmod _ _ 15 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 belonged belong VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 expected expect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | man | | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **belong** | past | this part of the country | | | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **expect** | past · passive | | the Daimio | | the capital | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | man | | | | | to the high road; carry *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | would | the procession | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **pass** | to-infinitive | the procession *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/40/) - ↑ back to [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/)