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title: As not uncommonly happens in such cases, she turned the whole house… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As not uncommonly happens in such cases, she turned the whole house upside down, and the two quarrelled and fought all day long. Who acts: peasant, two. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 14

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As not uncommonly happens in such cases, she turned the whole house upside down, and the two quarrelled and fought all day long.

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**Who acts:** peasant, two · **What happens:** not happen, turn, quarrell, fight · **To what, where:** such cases, whole house upside

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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 (peasant, two), 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:pg641:2:14
# text = As not uncommonly happens in such cases, she turned the whole house upside down, and the two quarrelled and fought all day long.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	uncommonly	uncommonly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	upside	upside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
20	quarrelled	quarrell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **happen** | present | peasant *not said here* |  |  | such cases |  | uncommonly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in case=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | past | peasant | the whole house upside |  |  |  | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent upside=Theme |
| 3 | **quarrell** | past | the two |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** | past | the two *not said here* |  |  |  | day | long *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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