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title: Now let us look back a moment, and see what had been going on in Els… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now let us look back a moment, and see what had been going on in Elsa’s native village all these years, and how her double had fared. Who acts: you, us, Elsa. 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 155

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Now let us look back a moment, and see what had been going on in Elsa’s native village all these years, and how her double had fared.

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**Who acts:** you, us, Elsa · **What happens:** let, look back, see, go on, fare, double · **To what, where:** us, native village, double · **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 (you, us, Elsa), 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:pg641:2:155
# text = Now let us look back a moment, and see what had been going on in Elsa’s native village all these years, and how her double had fared.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	double	double	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fared	fare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look back** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **go on** | past · perfect · progressive |  |  |  | Elsa's native village | year |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 5 | **fare** | past · perfect · passive |  | Elsa's double |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **double** |  | Elsa |  |  |  |  |  | nom double «act intransitive»: 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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