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title: This time it was a stout old woman in the dress of a peasant, who al… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time it was a stout old woman in the dress of a peasant, who also was after a hare to provide a dinner for unexpected visitors. Who acts: herd, peasant. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 116

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This time it was a stout old woman in the dress of a peasant, who also was after a hare to provide a dinner for unexpected visitors.

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**Who acts:** herd, peasant · **What happens:** be, provide · **To what, where:** stout old woman, dress, dinner

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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 (herd, peasant), 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:pg641:24:116
# text = This time it was a stout old woman in the dress of a peasant, who also was after a hare to provide a dinner for unexpected visitors.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | herd | a stout old woman |  | the dress of a peasant | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a peasant |  |  |  | after a hare |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **provide** | to-infinitive | herd *not said here* | a dinner |  |  |  | for unexpected visitors | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition dinner=Theme for visitor=Beneficiary |

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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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