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title: I must not forget to mention that much disturbance was caused in the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I must not forget to mention that much disturbance was caused in the palace by Jem’s sudden disappearance, for when the grand duke sent orders next day to behead the dwarf, if he had not found the necessary herbs, the dwarf was not to be found. Who acts: I, sudden disappearance, grand duke, Jem. A s
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 120

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I must not forget to mention that much disturbance was caused in the palace by Jem’s sudden disappearance, for when the grand duke sent orders next day to behead the dwarf, if he had not found the necessary herbs, the dwarf was not to be found.

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**Who acts:** I, sudden disappearance, grand duke, Jem · **What happens:** not forget, mention, cause, send, behead, not find · **To what, where:** much disturbance, palace, orders, dwarf, necessary herbs · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sudden disappearance, grand duke, Jem), 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:pg641:28:120
# text = I must not forget to mention that much disturbance was caused in the palace by Jem’s sudden disappearance, for when the grand duke sent orders next day to behead the dwarf, if he had not found the necessary herbs, the dwarf was not to be found.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	Jem	Jem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	26	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	behead	behead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **forget** | must | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cause** | past · passive | Jem's sudden disappearance | much disturbance |  | the palace |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 4 | **send** | past | the grand duke | orders |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 5 | **behead** | to-infinitive | the grand duke *not said here* | the dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Patient |
| 6 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Jem | the necessary herbs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **find** | past · passive | Jem *not said here* | the dwarf |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 8 | **disappear** |  | Jem |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=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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