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title: There sat his mother, with a good deal of fruit still in her baskets… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There sat his mother, with a good deal of fruit still in her baskets, so he felt he could not have slept so very long, but it struck him that she was sad, for she did not call to the passers-by, but sat with her head resting on her hand, and as he came nearer he thought she looked paler than usual. 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 106

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There sat his mother, with a good deal of fruit still in her baskets, so he felt he could not have slept so very long, but it struck him that she was sad, for she did not call to the passers-by, but sat with her head resting on her hand, and as he came nearer he thought she looked paler than usual.

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**Who acts:** head, deal, mother · **What happens:** sit, feel, not sleep, strike, be, not call · **To what, where:** mother, baskets, head, passers, hand, fruit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, deal, mother), 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:pg641:26:106
# text = There sat his mother, with a good deal of fruit still in her baskets, so he felt he could not have slept so very long, but it struck him that she was sad, for she did not call to the passers-by, but sat with her head resting on her hand, and as he came nearer he thought she looked paler than usual.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	baskets	basket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	passers	passer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
60	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	advcl	_	_
63	nearer	near	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	62	advmod	_	_
64	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
65	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
66	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	ccomp	_	_
68	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	67	xcomp	_	_
69	than	than	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
70	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | head's mother |  | mother's baskets; there | still |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme in basket=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | past | head |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **sleep** | could · perfect | head |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **strike** | past | deal | head |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
| 5 | **is** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **call** | past · do-support | mother |  | the passers |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to passer=Recipient |
| 7 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with mother's head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **rest** | gerund |  |  |  | mother's hand |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location |
| 9 | **come** | past | head |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **think** *speech: other* | past | head |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 11 | **look** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 12 | **deal** |  |  | fruit |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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