--- title: And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it r… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it rained, and the wood-cutters ran and hid in the rocks, all but Hassebu, who did not mind wetting, and stayed where he was. Who acts: donkeys, it, wood cutters, Hassebu. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/16/) [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 Story of Hassebu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/) / 16 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 16 And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it rained, and the wood-cutters ran and hid in the rocks, all but Hassebu, who did not mind wetting, and stayed where he was. **Who acts:** donkeys, it, wood cutters, Hassebu · **What happens:** go, do, rain, run, hide, not mind · **To what, where:** seventh, rocks This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (donkeys, it, wood cutters, Hassebu), 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:pg641:30:16 # text = And for six days they went and did the like, but on the seventh it rained, and the wood-cutters ran and hid in the rocks, all but Hassebu, who did not mind wetting, and stayed where he was. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 like like INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 seventh seventh NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rained rain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 cutters cutter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 conj _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 33 Hassebu Hassebu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 36 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 39 wetting wet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 45 advmod _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | donkeys *= donkey* | | | | day | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | donkeys *= donkey* *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **rain** | past | it | | | the seventh | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **run** | past | the wood cutters | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hide** | past | donkeys *= donkey* *not said here* | | | the rocks | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rock=Location | | 6 | **not** **mind** | past · do-support | Hassebu | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 7 | **wet** | gerund | Hassebu *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **stay** | past | donkeys *= donkey* *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **be** | past | Hassebu | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/17/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Hassebu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/)