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title: He remembered what she had said about the virtues of the whistle, bu… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He remembered what she had said about the virtues of the whistle, but was rather doubtful whether its powers would extend to a hundred hares, each of which had gone in a different direction and might be several miles distant by this time. Who acts: Jesper, woman, powers, each. A sentence of «The Vio
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 100

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He remembered what she had said about the virtues of the whistle, but was rather doubtful whether its powers would extend to a hundred hares, each of which had gone in a different direction and might be several miles distant by this time.

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**Who acts:** Jesper, woman, powers, each · **What happens:** remember, say, be, extend, go · **To what, where:** hundred hares, different direction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jesper, woman, powers, each), 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:pg641:24:100
# text = He remembered what she had said about the virtues of the whistle, but was rather doubtful whether its powers would extend to a hundred hares, each of which had gone in a different direction and might be several miles distant by this time.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	extend	extend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
40	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
45	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | Jesper |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | about the virtues of the whistle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **extend** | would | whistle's powers |  | a hundred hares |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hare=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | each |  |  | a different direction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **is** | might | each *not said here* |  |  |  | time | several miles *obl:unmarked*; distant *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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