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title: At last one wet spring the mother caught cold, and though in the beg… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last one wet spring the mother caught cold, and though in the beginning she did not pay much attention to it, she gradually grew more and more ill, and knew that she had not long to live. Who acts: mother, girl. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helm
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 11

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At last one wet spring the mother caught cold, and though in the beginning she did not pay much attention to it, she gradually grew more and more ill, and knew that she had not long to live.

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**Who acts:** mother, girl · **What happens:** catch, not pay, grow, know, live · **To what, where:** much attention, attention

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, girl), 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:pg641:31:11
# text = At last one wet spring the mother caught cold, and though in the beginning she did not pay much attention to it, she gradually grew more and more ill, and knew that she had not long to live.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beginning	beginning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	31	advmod	_	_
31	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the mother |  |  |  | spring | cold *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **pay** | past · do-support | girl | much attention | attention |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 3 | **grow** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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