--- title: Everything was new to Hans, and though he was rather bewildered he e… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Everything was new to Hans, and though he was rather bewildered he enjoyed himself very much, especially when the man with the golden crown began to tell him many things he had never heard of before. Who acts: Everything, Hans, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Undergrou --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/66/) [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/) / [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/) / 66 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 66 Everything was new to Hans, and though he was rather bewildered he enjoyed himself very much, especially when the man with the golden crown began to tell him many things he had never heard of before. **Who acts:** Everything, Hans, man · **What happens:** be, bewilder, enjoy, begin, tell, not hear · **To what, where:** Hans, many things · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Everything, Hans, man), 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:pg641:25:66 # text = Everything was new to Hans, and though he was rather bewildered he enjoyed himself very much, especially when the man with the golden crown began to tell him many things he had never heard of before. 1 Everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 though though SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux:pass _ _ 11 rather rather ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 bewildered bewilder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 enjoyed enjoy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obj _ _ 16 very very ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 much much ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 especially especially ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 acl:relcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 before before ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Everything | | Hans | | | new *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **bewilder** | past · passive | | Hans | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **enjoy** | past | Hans | Hans | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | | 4 | **begin** | past | the man with the golden crown | | | | | especially *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the man with the golden crown *not said here* | many things | Hans | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Topic | | 6 | **not** **hear** | past · perfect | Hans | many things *not said here* | | | | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/67/) - ↑ back to [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/)