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title: Soon after, one of the slaves woke up and looked for the dates, but… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after, one of the slaves woke up and looked for the dates, but there were no dates to see. Who acts: one, dates. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 16

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Soon after, one of the slaves woke up and looked for the dates, but there were no dates to see.

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**Who acts:** one, dates · **What happens:** wake up, look, be, see

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, dates), 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:pg641:29:16
# text = Soon after, one of the slaves woke up and looked for the dates, but there were no dates to see.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
8	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake up** | past | one |  |  |  |  | of the slaves | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | past | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the dates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for date=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | past | no dates |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | no dates *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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