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title: For two years Elsa suffered all this ill-treatment, when one day she… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For two years Elsa suffered all this ill-treatment, when one day she went out with the other village children to pluck strawberries. Who acts: 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 17

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For two years Elsa suffered all this ill-treatment, when one day she went out with the other village children to pluck strawberries.

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**Who acts:** Elsa · **What happens:** suffer, go out, pluck · **To what, where:** ill treatment, strawberries

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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 (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:pg641:2:17
# text = For two years Elsa suffered all this ill-treatment, when one day she went out with the other village children to pluck strawberries.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
25	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | Elsa | all ill treatment |  |  | year |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go out** | past | Elsa |  |  |  | day | with the other village children; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | Elsa *not said here* | strawberries |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient |

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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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