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title: And when they had finished he bade them hide the rest of the food in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when they had finished he bade them hide the rest of the food in the thicket, that if they slew the Nunda they might return and eat and sleep before going back to the town. Who acts: cakes, cat. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People, with its dependency
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 206

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And when they had finished he bade them hide the rest of the food in the thicket, that if they slew the Nunda they might return and eat and sleep before going back to the town.

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**Who acts:** cakes, cat · **What happens:** finish, bade, hide, slay, return, eat · **To what, where:** rest, thicket, Nunda

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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 (cakes, cat), 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:pg641:29:206
# text = And when they had finished he bade them hide the rest of the food in the thicket, that if they slew the Nunda they might return and eat and sleep before going back to the town.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Nunda	Nunda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
34	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | cakes *= cake* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bade** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present | cakes *= cake* | the rest of the food |  | the thicket |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rest=Patient in thicket=Location |
| 4 | **slay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | cakes *= cake* | the Nunda |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nunda=Patient |
| 5 | **return** | might | cakes *= cake* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** | infinitive | cakes *= cake* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sleep** | infinitive | cakes *= cake* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **go back** | gerund | cakes *= cake* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the town *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result |

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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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