--- title: He thought more of what she said, however, after his pearls also tur… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He thought more of what she said, however, after his pearls also turned to cinders before the eyes of king and court: then he lost no time in getting home again, and was very sulky when asked how he had succeeded. Who acts: Paul, woman, time. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/46/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 46 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 46 He thought more of what she said, however, after his pearls also turned to cinders before the eyes of king and court: then he lost no time in getting home again, and was very sulky when asked how he had succeeded. **Who acts:** Paul, woman, time · **What happens:** think, say, turn, lose, get, be · **To what, where:** more, cinders · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Paul, woman, time), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:24:46 # text = He thought more of what she said, however, after his pearls also turned to cinders before the eyes of king and court: then he lost no time in getting home again, and was very sulky when asked how he had succeeded. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 obl _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 however however ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 14 also also ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 cinders cinder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 32 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 33 home home ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 sulky sulky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 40 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 41 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 advcl _ _ 42 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 succeeded succeed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Paul | more | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn** | past | Paul *not said here* | | | cinders | after Paul's pearls; before the eyes of king and court | however *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to cinder=Source before eye=Trajectory | | 4 | **lose** | past | Paul | | | | then; time | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** | gerund | no time *not said here* | | | | again | home *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | sulky *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | participle | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **succeed** | past · perfect | Paul | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **pearl** | | Paul | | | | | | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/47/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)