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title: He was sure he had gone to market with his mother only that morning,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was sure he had gone to market with his mother only that morning, had helped to set out the stall, had gone to the old woman’s house, where he had some soup and a little nap, and now, when he came back, they were all talking of seven years. Who acts: boy, games. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Bo
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 124

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He was sure he had gone to market with his mother only that morning, had helped to set out the stall, had gone to the old woman’s house, where he had some soup and a little nap, and now, when he came back, they were all talking of seven years.

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**Who acts:** boy, games · **What happens:** be, go, help, set out, have, come back · **To what, where:** market, stall, house, soup

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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 (boy, games), 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:pg641:26:124
# text = He was sure he had gone to market with his mother only that morning, had helped to set out the stall, had gone to the old woman’s house, where he had some soup and a little nap, and now, when he came back, they were all talking of seven years.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stall	stall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
37	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	48	advmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
49	back	back	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	all	all	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | boy | market with boy's mother |  |  | morning |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | past · perfect | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **set out** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | the stall |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | boy *not said here* |  |  | the old woman's house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **have** | past | boy | some soup and a little nap |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Patient |
| 7 | **come back** | past | boy |  |  |  | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **talk** | past · progressive | games *= game* |  |  |  | year | all *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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