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title: Hans listened for a moment, then resolved to go towards the place wh… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans listened for a moment, then resolved to go towards the place where the sound came from, hoping he might come across some human being. Who acts: Hans, sound. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 24

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Hans listened for a moment, then resolved to go towards the place where the sound came from, hoping he might come across some human being.

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**Who acts:** Hans, sound · **What happens:** listen, resolve, go, come, hope · **To what, where:** place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, sound), 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:pg641:25:24
# text = Hans listened for a moment, then resolved to go towards the place where the sound came from, hoping he might come across some human being.
1	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
24	across	across	ADP	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Hans |  |  |  | moment |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **resolve** | participle | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Hans *not said here* |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards place=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | the sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hope** | gerund | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | might | sound |  |  |  |  | human *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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