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title: He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three, thought everything delicious, and grew fatter daily. Who acts: duke. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 135

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He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three, thought everything delicious, and grew fatter daily.

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**Who acts:** duke · **What happens:** not grumble, have, think, grow · **To what, where:** anything, five meals, everything

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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 (duke), 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:pg641:27:135
# text = He never even grumbled at anything, had five meals instead of three, thought everything delicious, and grew fatter daily.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	grumbled	grumble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	meals	meal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	15	obj	_	_
17	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	fatter	fat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	xcomp	_	_
22	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grumble** *speech: other* | participle | duke |  |  | anything |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | duke *not said here* | five meals |  |  |  | instead three | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | duke *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot everything=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | duke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | daily, fat *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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