--- title: ‘Well! you son of Long Hans, isn’t this more comfortable than your j… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well! you son of Long Hans, isn’t this more comfortable than your juniper bush?’ laughed the stranger, and for answer Hans replied he could not thank his friend enough for having brought him here, and, throwing off his sheepskin, rolled it up as a pillow. Who acts: you, son, Hans, throwing. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son, Hans, throwing), 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:pg641:25:18 # text = ‘Well! you son of Long Hans, isn’t this more comfortable than your juniper bush?’ laughed the stranger, and for answer Hans replied he could not thank his friend enough for having brought him here, and, throwing off his sheepskin, rolled it up as a pillow. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Long Long ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 nmod _ _ 8 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 11 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 14 comfortable comfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 juniper juniper NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 21 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 28 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 enough enough ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 having have AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 aux _ _ 39 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 throwing throw VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 50 csubj _ _ 46 off off ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 sheepskin sheepskin NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 50 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 51 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 up up ADP RP _ 50 compound:prt _ _ 53 as as ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 pillow pillow NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **son** | | you | | | | | of Long | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | son | | | | | than your juniper bush; comfortable *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | past | son *not said here* | the stranger | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | | 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Hans | | | | | for answer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **not** **thank** *speech: thank* | could | son | | son's friend | | | enough *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 6 | **bring** | gerund · perfect | son *not said here* | | son | here | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 7 | **throw off** | gerund | | son's sheepskin | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheepskin=Theme | | 8 | **roll up** | past | throwing | sheepskin | | | | as a pillow | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/19/) - ↑ back to [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/)