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title: He put them carefully in a china vase, and carried it to the high ro… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He put them carefully in a china vase, and carried it to the high road, Sitting down on a seat till the Daimio should pass. Who acts: man, Daimio. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 42

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He put them carefully in a china vase, and carried it to the high road, Sitting down on a seat till the Daimio should pass.

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**Who acts:** man, Daimio · **What happens:** put, carry, sit down, pass · **To what, where:** ashes, china vase, vase, high road, seat

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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 (man, Daimio), 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:pg641:18:42
# text = He put them carefully in a china vase, and carried it to the high road, Sitting down on a seat till the Daimio should pass.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Daimio	Daimio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | man | ashes *= ash* |  | a china vase |  | carefully *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in vase=Destination |
| 2 | **carry** | past | man *not said here* | vase |  | the high road |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to road=Destination |
| 3 | **sit down** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | a seat |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location |
| 4 | **pass** | should | the Daimio | a seat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme seat=Trajectory |

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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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