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title: He hastened to the place where he had burned the mortar, collected a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He hastened to the place where he had burned the mortar, collected a few of the ashes which the old man had left behind, and took them to the road, hoping that his luck might be as good as the old man’s, or perhaps even better. Who acts: bosom, old man, luck. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 50

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He hastened to the place where he had burned the mortar, collected a few of the ashes which the old man had left behind, and took them to the road, hoping that his luck might be as good as the old man’s, or perhaps even better.

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**Who acts:** bosom, old man, luck · **What happens:** hasten, burn, collect, leave behind, take, hope · **To what, where:** place, bosom, few, ashes, road · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bosom, old man, luck), 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:pg641:18:50
# text = He hastened to the place where he had burned the mortar, collected a few of the ashes which the old man had left behind, and took them to the road, hoping that his luck might be as good as the old man’s, or perhaps even better.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mortar	mortar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
25	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	cop	_	_
40	as	as	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	even	even	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past | bosom |  |  | the place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
| 2 | **burn** | past · perfect · passive |  | bosom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **collect** | past |  | a few of the ashes |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme |
| 4 | **leave behind** | past · perfect | the old man | the ashes |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | bosom *not said here* | ashes *= ash* |  | the road |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to road=Destination |
| 6 | **hope** | gerund | bosom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **is** | might | man's luck |  |  |  |  | as the old man; good *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | man's luck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | 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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