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title: But suddenly the boy remembered what his father had told him, and ba… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But suddenly the boy remembered what his father had told him, and bade farewell to the man, and went further down the river, till he came to another mill, not knowing that as soon as his back was turned the beardless man had picked up a bag of corn and run hastily to the same mill before him. Who ac
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 8

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But suddenly the boy remembered what his father had told him, and bade farewell to the man, and went further down the river, till he came to another mill, not knowing that as soon as his back was turned the beardless man had picked up a bag of corn and run hastily to the same mill before him.

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**Who acts:** boy, father, beardless man · **What happens:** remember, tell, go, come, not know, turn · **To what, where:** bade, boy, river, mill, that, back · **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 (boy, father, beardless 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:pg641:3:8
# text = But suddenly the boy remembered what his father had told him, and bade farewell to the man, and went further down the river, till he came to another mill, not knowing that as soon as his back was turned the beardless man had picked up a bag of corn and run hastily to the same mill before him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	further	further	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	obj	_	_
37	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	beardless	beardless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	picked	pick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	_
49	up	up	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
56	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
61	before	before	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | the boy | bade |  |  |  | to the man; suddenly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | boy's father |  | boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the river |  | further *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down river=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **come** | past | father |  |  | another mill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **not** **know** | gerund | father *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 6 | **turn** | past · passive |  | father's back |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **pick up** | past · perfect | the beardless man | a bag of corn |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Topic |
| 8 | **run** | present | the beardless man *not said here* |  |  |  | before father | to the same mill *result*; hastily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mill=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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