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title: However, the fact remained that strange things did happen there, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: However, the fact remained that strange things did happen there, and the King of Sweden, to whom this part of the country belonged, more than once gave orders to cut down the haunted wood, but there was no one with courage enough to obey his commands. Who acts: fact, strange things, King, one. A sen
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 10

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However, the fact remained that strange things did happen there, and the King of Sweden, to whom this part of the country belonged, more than once gave orders to cut down the haunted wood, but there was no one with courage enough to obey his commands.

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**Who acts:** fact, strange things, King, one · **What happens:** remain, happen, belong, give, cut down, haunt · **To what, where:** more, orders, haunted wood, commands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, strange things, King, one), 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:pg641:2:10
# text = However, the fact remained that strange things did happen there, and the King of Sweden, to whom this part of the country belonged, more than once gave orders to cut down the haunted wood, but there was no one with courage enough to obey his commands.
1	However	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Sweden	Sweden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	obj	_	_
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	31	advmod	_	_
31	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
32	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	42	expl	_	_
42	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
43	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	44	det	_	_
44	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the fact |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | past · do-support | strange things |  |  | there |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** | past | the King of Sweden | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | the King of Sweden *not said here* | orders |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cut down** | to-infinitive | the King of Sweden *not said here* | the haunted wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 6 | **haunt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **be** | past | no one with courage |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **obey** | to-infinitive | no one with courage *not said here* | King's commands |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 9 | **command** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication 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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