--- title: When his father heard the noise and saw the baskets made of green le… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When his father heard the noise and saw the baskets made of green leaves, brimming over with dates, and his son borne high on the necks of slaves, his heart leaped, and he said to himself ‘To-day at last I shall eat dates.’ Who acts: father, son, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, son, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:29:137 # text = When his father heard the noise and saw the baskets made of green leaves, brimming over with dates, and his son borne high on the necks of slaves, his heart leaped, and he said to himself ‘To-day at last I shall eat dates.’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 baskets basket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 brimming brim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 17 over over ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 25 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 24 advmod _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 leaped leap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 38 obl _ _ 41 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 To to ADP IN _ 44 case _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 nmod _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 48 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 49 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 50 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | boy's father | the noise | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | boy's father *not said here* | the baskets | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus | | 3 | **make** | participle | | the baskets *not said here* | | | | of green leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **brim over** | gerund | boy's father *not said here* | | | | | with dates; over *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **bear** | participle | boy's son | | | the necks of slaves and boy's heart | | high *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **leap** | participle | | boy's heart *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father | | boy | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 8 | **eat** | shall | I | dates | | | day | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/138/) - ↑ back to [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/)