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title: Then Petru repeated hastily what the horse had told him to say, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Petru repeated hastily what the horse had told him to say, and no sooner had he done so than the goddess opened the window, and in gentle tones she asked him: Who acts: Petru, horse, goddess. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, with its dependenc
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 43

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Then Petru repeated hastily what the horse had told him to say, and no sooner had he done so than the goddess opened the window, and in gentle tones she asked him:

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**Who acts:** Petru, horse, goddess · **What happens:** repeat, tell, say, do, open, ask · **To what, where:** horse, Petru, window, gentle tones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, horse, goddess), 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:pg641:21:43
# text = Then Petru repeated hastily what the horse had told him to say, and no sooner had he done so than the goddess opened the window, and in gentle tones she asked him:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | Petru |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the horse | Petru |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | Petru |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **open** | past | Petru *not said here* | the window |  |  |  | than the goddess | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | goddess |  | Petru | gentle tones |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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