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title: They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon r… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon released his daughter, and loaded Jem with thanks and valuable presents. Who acts: geese, wizard. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 117

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They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon released his daughter, and loaded Jem with thanks and valuable presents.

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**Who acts:** geese, wizard · **What happens:** get, release, load · **To what, where:** journey, daughter, Jem

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (geese, wizard), 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:pg641:28:117
# text = They got through the journey without accident, and the wizard soon released his daughter, and loaded Jem with thanks and valuable presents.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	released	release	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | geese *= goose* |  |  | the journey |  | without accident | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through journey=Destination |
| 2 | **release** | past | the wizard | wizard's daughter |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer daughter=Source |
| 3 | **load** | past | geese *= goose* *not said here* |  | Jem |  |  | with thanks and valuable presents | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent jem=Destination with thanks=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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