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title: ‘Good evening,’ said Petru as he entered the house, and, seating him… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Good evening,’ said Petru as he entered the house, and, seating himself near the fire, listened comfortably to whatever the goddess might choose to talk about, which was for the most part the wickedness of men, with whom she was evidently very angry. Who acts: Petru, goddess. A sentence of «The Vio
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 47

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‘Good evening,’ said Petru as he entered the house, and, seating himself near the fire, listened comfortably to whatever the goddess might choose to talk about, which was for the most part the wickedness of men, with whom she was evidently very angry.

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**Who acts:** Petru, goddess · **What happens:** say, enter, seat, listen, choose, talk · **To what, where:** house, Petru, fire · **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, 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:pg641:21:47
# text = ‘Good evening,’ said Petru as he entered the house, and, seating himself near the fire, listened comfortably to whatever the goddess might choose to talk about, which was for the most part the wickedness of men, with whom she was evidently very angry.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	seating	seat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
17	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
23	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
39	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nmod	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	very	very	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Petru |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **enter** | past | Petru | the house |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 3 | **seat** | gerund |  | Petru |  | the fire |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 4 | **listen** | past | the goddess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | comfortably *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **choose** | might | the goddess |  |  |  |  | to whatever | tree rules |
| 6 | **talk** | to-infinitive | the goddess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the most part | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | goddess |  |  |  |  | angry, evidently *property* | tree rules |

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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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