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title: He lost no time in setting to work, and everyone rejoiced at having… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 133

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He lost no time in setting to work, and everyone rejoiced at having him in the kitchen, for the duke was not a patient man, and had been known to throw plates and dishes at his cooks and servants if the things served were not quite to his taste.

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**Who acts:** Jem, everyone, duke, things · **What happens:** lose, set, work, rejoice, have, not be · **To what, where:** Jem, kitchen, patient man, plates, cooks, things

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jem, everyone, duke, things), 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:pg641:27:133
# text = He lost no time in setting to work, and everyone rejoiced at having him in the kitchen, for the duke was not a patient man, and had been known to throw plates and dishes at his cooks and servants if the things served were not quite to his taste.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	dishes	dish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	cooks	cook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	conj	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
46	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
49	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past | Jem |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | gerund | Jem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | Jem *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rejoice** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | Jem |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | past | the duke | a patient man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **throw** | to-infinitive |  | plates and dishes |  | Jem's cooks and servants |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent plate=Theme at cook=Destination |
| 9 | **serve** | participle |  | the things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the things |  |  |  |  | to Jem's taste | tree rules |

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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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