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title: Every morning when I got up I counted them over, and it was quite ea… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning when I got up I counted them over, and it was quite easy to number the bees, but I never could reckon the hives properly. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 23

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Every morning when I got up I counted them over, and it was quite easy to number the bees, but I never could reckon the hives properly.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get up, count over, be, not reckon · **To what, where:** beehives, hives

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg641:3:23
# text = Every morning when I got up I counted them over, and it was quite easy to number the bees, but I never could reckon the hives properly.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hives	hive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **count over** | past | I | beehives *= beehive* |  |  | morning |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the bees *obl:unmarked*; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **reckon** | could | I | the hives |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hive=Attribute |

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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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