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title: All night long after her talk with the lady Elsa had wept and wailed… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All night long after her talk with the lady Elsa had wept and wailed her hard fate in being cast out from her home which she loved. Who acts: wife. 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 168

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All night long after her talk with the lady Elsa had wept and wailed her hard fate in being cast out from her home which she loved.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** weep, wail, cast out, love, talk, fate · **To what, where:** talk, hard fate, home

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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 (wife), 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:pg641:2:168
# text = All night long after her talk with the lady Elsa had wept and wailed her hard fate in being cast out from her home which she loved.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	wailed	wail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past · perfect · passive |  | wife's talk with the lady |  |  | night |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **wail** | past |  | wife's hard fate |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fate=Theme |
| 3 | **cast out** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | wife's home |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: from home=Material |
| 4 | **love** | past | wife | wife's home |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 5 | **talk** |  | wife |  |  |  |  | with the lady | nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
| 6 | **fate** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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