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title: When I had reached the other side I found a man had harnessed my bee… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I had reached the other side I found a man had harnessed my bee to a plough, and with his help was sowing millet seed. Who acts: I, man. 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 26

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When I had reached the other side I found a man had harnessed my bee to a plough, and with his help was sowing millet seed.

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** reach, find, harness, sow, help · **To what, where:** other side, bee, millet seed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, man), 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:pg641:3:26
# text = When I had reached the other side I found a man had harnessed my bee to a plough, and with his help was sowing millet seed.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	harnessed	harness	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sowing	sow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
26	millet	millet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | I | the other side |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **harness** | past · perfect | a man | my bee |  |  |  | to a plough | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bee=Patient to plough=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **sow** | past · progressive | I *not said here* | millet seed |  |  |  | with man's help | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Destination with help=Theme |
| 5 | **help** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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