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title: It was therefore with great surprise and annoyance that he now learn… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was therefore with great surprise and annoyance that he now learned of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper carrying out his task with success. Who acts: face, Jesper, likelihood, hares. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 104

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It was therefore with great surprise and annoyance that he now learned of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper carrying out his task with success.

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**Who acts:** face, Jesper, likelihood, hares · **What happens:** be, learn, carry out, return, task · **To what, where:** task

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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 (face, Jesper, likelihood, hares), 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:pg641:24:104
# text = It was therefore with great surprise and annoyance that he now learned of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper carrying out his task with success.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	likelihood	likelihood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  |  | with great surprise and annoyance; therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past | Jesper |  |  |  | now | of the mysterious return of the hares and the likelihood of Jesper | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of return=Topic |
| 3 | **carry out** | gerund | the likelihood of Jesper *not said here* | Jesper's task |  |  |  | with success | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 4 | **return** |  | the hares and the likelihood of Jesper |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **task** |  | Jesper |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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