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title: Each morning they both worked for an hour at reading and writing, as… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each morning they both worked for an hour at reading and writing, as they had always done, and Elsa was anxious to learn all she could, but Kisika much preferred childish games to anything else. Who acts: things, Elsa, Kisika. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontl
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 129

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Each morning they both worked for an hour at reading and writing, as they had always done, and Elsa was anxious to learn all she could, but Kisika much preferred childish games to anything else.

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**Who acts:** things, Elsa, Kisika · **What happens:** work, do, be, learn, prefer · **To what, where:** all, childish games

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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 (things, Elsa, Kisika), 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:pg641:2:129
# text = Each morning they both worked for an hour at reading and writing, as they had always done, and Elsa was anxious to learn all she could, but Kisika much preferred childish games to anything else.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obj	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	Kisika	Kisika	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	much	much	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obl	_	_
38	else	else	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  | hour; morning | at reading and writing; both *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at reading=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Elsa |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Elsa *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic |
| 5 | **prefer** | past | Kisika | childish games |  |  |  | to anything | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer game=Stimulus |

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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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