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title: Not long after the old man came back with a mould full of clay on hi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long after the old man came back with a mould full of clay on his shoulders, and a little covered basket in his left hand. Who acts: old man. 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 86

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Not long after the old man came back with a mould full of clay on his shoulders, and a little covered basket in his left hand.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** come back, cover · **To what, where:** little covered basket

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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 (old man), 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:pg641:2:86
# text = Not long after the old man came back with a mould full of clay on his shoulders, and a little covered basket in his left hand.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | the old man | a little covered basket in man's left hand |  |  |  | with a mould; long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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