--- title: At length his memory came back to him, and as he called to mind all… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At length his memory came back to him, and as he called to mind all the wonderful things he had seen he tried in vain to make them agree with those that happen every day. Who acts: memory, friend, things. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/77/) [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/) / 77 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 77 At length his memory came back to him, and as he called to mind all the wonderful things he had seen he tried in vain to make them agree with those that happen every day. **Who acts:** memory, friend, things · **What happens:** come back, call, mind, see, try, make · **To what, where:** friend, length, wonderful things, vain, 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 (memory, friend, things), 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:pg641:25:77 # text = At length his memory came back to him, and as he called to mind all the wonderful things he had seen he tried in vain to make them agree with those that happen every day. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 obl _ _ 33 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 34 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | past | friend's memory | | friend | length | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **call** | past | friend | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **mind** | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | past · perfect · passive | | all wonderful things | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **try** | past | friend | | | vain | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* | things *= thing* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* | infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | | | | | with those | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with that=Co-Agent | | 8 | **happen** | present | | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/78/) - ↑ back to [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/)