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title: ‘Oh, yes!’ cried Long Nose, much relieved; ‘near the lake--only a co… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh, yes!’ cried Long Nose, much relieved; ‘near the lake--only a couple of hundred yards from the palace--is a large clump of them. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, 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 3, sentence 86

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‘Oh, yes!’ cried Long Nose, much relieved; ‘near the lake--only a couple of hundred yards from the palace--is a large clump of them.

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**What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** Long Nose, lake, large clump

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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: 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:pg641:28:86
# text = ‘Oh, yes!’ cried Long Nose, much relieved; ‘near the lake--only a couple of hundred yards from the palace--is a large clump of them.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	relieved	relieved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Long Nose |  | the lake and a large clump |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a large clump |  |  |  | of yards *= yard* | 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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