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title: Here the lad stopped, and ordered every slave that wore two cloths t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the lad stopped, and ordered every slave that wore two cloths to cast one away and tuck up the other between his legs. Who acts: lad, slave. 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 210

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Here the lad stopped, and ordered every slave that wore two cloths to cast one away and tuck up the other between his legs.

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**Who acts:** lad, slave · **What happens:** stop, order, wear, cast away, tuck up · **To what, where:** slave, two cloths, one, other

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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 (lad, slave), 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:pg641:29:210
# text = Here the lad stopped, and ordered every slave that wore two cloths to cast one away and tuck up the other between his legs.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	cloths	cloth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	tuck	tuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | the lad |  |  | here |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **order** | past | the lad *not said here* | every slave |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | past | every slave | two cloths |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cloth=Source |
| 4 | **cast away** | to-infinitive | every slave *not said here* | one |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product |
| 5 | **tuck up** | infinitive | every slave *not said here* | the other |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent other=Theme |

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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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