--- title: One son tried to keep himself awake with playing cards; another moun… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One son tried to keep himself awake with playing cards; another mounted a horse and rode round and round the tree, while the two others, whom their father as a last hope sent together, lit bonfires. Who acts: One son, two others. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/69/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/) / 69 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 69 One son tried to keep himself awake with playing cards; another mounted a horse and rode round and round the tree, while the two others, whom their father as a last hope sent together, lit bonfires. **Who acts:** One son, two others · **What happens:** try, keep, play, mount, round, father · **To what, where:** sultan, cards, horse, tree, last hope 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 son, two others), 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:pg641:29:69 # text = One son tried to keep himself awake with playing cards; another mounted a horse and rode round and round the tree, while the two others, whom their father as a last hope sent together, lit bonfires. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 awake awake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 with with SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 10 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 13 advmod _ _ 13 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 rode road NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 round round ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 round round VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 36 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 acl _ _ 37 together together ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 bonfires bonfire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | One son | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | One son *not said here* | sultan | | | | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 3 | **play** | gerund | One son *not said here* | cards | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | | 4 | **mount** | past | One son *not said here* | a horse and rode | | | | the two others *obl*; round *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 5 | **round** | infinitive | One son *not said here* | the tree | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 6 | **father** | | the two others | | | | | as a last hope | tree rules | | 7 | **send** | participle | | a last hope *not said here* | | | | together *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/68/) - next →: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/70/) - ↑ back to [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/)