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title: Oh, how lucky Hans thought himself; but where should he get a sack t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, how lucky Hans thought himself; but where should he get a sack to carry his treasure home before anyone else found it? Who acts: lucky Hans, friend, sack, anyone. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 81

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Oh, how lucky Hans thought himself; but where should he get a sack to carry his treasure home before anyone else found it?

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**Who acts:** lucky Hans, friend, sack, anyone · **What happens:** think, get, carry, find, treasure · **To what, where:** friend, sack, treasure · **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 (lucky Hans, friend, sack, anyone), 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:pg641:25:81
# text = Oh, how lucky Hans thought himself; but where should he get a sack to carry his treasure home before anyone else found it?
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | lucky Hans | friend |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | should | friend | a sack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | a sack *not said here* | friend's treasure |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | anyone | sack |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **treasure** |  | friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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