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title: But here, with the full tide of summer around him, he could hardly a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But here, with the full tide of summer around him, he could hardly accept his own explanation, and felt that he must have been the plaything or sport of some magician. Who acts: friend, summer, magician. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependen
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 79

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But here, with the full tide of summer around him, he could hardly accept his own explanation, and felt that he must have been the plaything or sport of some magician.

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**Who acts:** friend, summer, magician · **What happens:** accept, feel, be, tide, explain, sport · **To what, where:** own explanation, plaything

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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 (friend, summer, magician), 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:pg641:25:79
# text = But here, with the full tide of summer around him, he could hardly accept his own explanation, and felt that he must have been the plaything or sport of some magician.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	plaything	plaything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	advcl	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accept** | could | friend | friend's own explanation |  | here |  | hardly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent explanation=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | past | friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | must · perfect | friend | the plaything or sport of some magician |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tide** |  | summer |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **explain** |  | friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **sport** |  | some magician |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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