--- title: By the time he was set free everybody in his native village had foun… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: By the time he was set free everybody in his native village had found out his wickedness, and they would not let him live there any longer; and as he would not leave off his evil ways he soon went from bad to worse, and came to a miserable end. Who acts: prince, ashes. A sentence of «The Violet Fair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/54/) [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/) / 54 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 54 By the time he was set free everybody in his native village had found out his wickedness, and they would not let him live there any longer; and as he would not leave off his evil ways he soon went from bad to worse, and came to a miserable end. **Who acts:** prince, ashes · **What happens:** be, find out, not let, live, not leave off, go · **To what, where:** everybody, wickedness, native village, prince, evil ways, bad 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 (prince, ashes), 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:pg641:18:54 # text = By the time he was set free everybody in his native village had found out his wickedness, and they would not let him live there any longer; and as he would not leave off his evil ways he soon went from bad to worse, and came to a miserable end. 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 set set ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 acl:relcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 wickedness wickedness NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 any any ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 parataxis _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 42 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 obl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | prince | everybody | | | time | | tree rules | | 2 | **find out** | past · perfect | | prince's wickedness | | prince's native village | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wickedness=Topic | | 3 | **not** **let** | would | ashes *= ash* | prince | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **live** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | | | there | | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **leave off** | would | prince | prince's evil ways | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past | prince | prince's evil ways *not said here* | | bad | | to worse; soon *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **come** | past | prince *not said here* | | | | to a miserable end | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial\_Location | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/55/) - ↑ back to [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/)