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title: When he woke again, the king had just come into the barn, and was am… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he woke again, the king had just come into the barn, and was amazed to find that not only was the task accomplished, but that Jesper had found time to take a nap as well. Who acts: Jesper, king, task. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, with its de
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 91

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When he woke again, the king had just come into the barn, and was amazed to find that not only was the task accomplished, but that Jesper had found time to take a nap as well.

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**Who acts:** Jesper, king, task · **What happens:** wake, come, be, find, not be, take · **To what, where:** barn, Jesper, nap · **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, king, task), 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:pg641:24:91
# text = When he woke again, the king had just come into the barn, and was amazed to find that not only was the task accomplished, but that Jesper had found time to take a nap as well.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	amazed	amazed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	35	advmod	_	_
39	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | Jesper |  |  |  | again |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | the king |  |  | the barn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into barn=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | Jesper *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amazed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | the task |  |  |  |  | accomplish *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | past · perfect · passive |  | Jesper |  |  | time |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | a nap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme |

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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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