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title: Then all the market women came round and talked all together and sco… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then all the market women came round and talked all together and scolded as hard as they could, and said what a shame it was to make game of Mrs. Hannah, who had never got over the loss of her beautiful boy, who had been stolen from her seven years ago, and they threatened to fall upon Jem and scrat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 122

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Then all the market women came round and talked all together and scolded as hard as they could, and said what a shame it was to make game of Mrs. Hannah, who had never got over the loss of her beautiful boy, who had been stolen from her seven years ago, and they threatened to fall upon Jem and scratch him well if he did not go away at once.

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**Who acts:** market women, game, limbs, boy · **What happens:** come round, talk, scold, say, make, not get · **To what, where:** game, loss, beautiful boy, Jem, boy · **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 (market women, game, limbs, boy), 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:pg641:26:122
# text = Then all the market women came round and talked all together and scolded as hard as they could, and said what a shame it was to make game of Mrs. Hannah, who had never got over the loss of her beautiful boy, who had been stolen from her seven years ago, and they threatened to fall upon Jem and scratch him well if he did not go away at once.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	scolded	scold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	Hannah	Hannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl:unmarked	_	_
54	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	58	xcomp	_	_
61	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
65	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	64	advmod	_	_
67	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	71	mark	_	_
68	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	71	nsubj	_	_
69	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	aux	_	_
70	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	71	advmod	_	_
71	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	advcl	_	_
72	away	away	ADV	RB	_	71	advmod	_	_
73	at	at	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
74	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	71	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come round** | past | all market women |  |  |  | then | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | past | all market women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **scold** | participle | all market women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all market women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | all market women *not said here* | game of Mrs. |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product |
| 6 | **not** **get** | past · perfect | game of Mrs. |  |  | the loss of woman's beautiful boy |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over loss=Destination |
| 7 | **steal** | past · perfect · passive |  | woman's beautiful boy |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **threaten** | past | limbs *= limb* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **fall** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | limbs *= limb* *not said here* |  |  | Jem |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon jem=Location |
| 10 | **scratch** | infinitive | limbs *= limb* *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | well *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 11 | **not** **go away** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | boy |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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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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