--- title: There was none to be got by staying where she was, so she made her c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There was none to be got by staying where she was, so she made her clothes into a bundle, and walked over the hills till she reached the house of the man who owned the fields in that part of the country. Who acts: none, girl, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/17/) [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 Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/) / 17 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 17 There was none to be got by staying where she was, so she made her clothes into a bundle, and walked over the hills till she reached the house of the man who owned the fields in that part of the country. **Who acts:** none, girl, man · **What happens:** be, get, stay, make, walk, reach · **To what, where:** clothes, bundle, hills, house, fields, part 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 (none, girl, man), 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:pg641:31:17 # text = There was none to be got by staying where she was, so she made her clothes into a bundle, and walked over the hills till she reached the house of the man who owned the fields in that part of the country. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 by by SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 15 obj _ _ 18 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 owned own VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 41 det _ _ 41 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | none | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive · passive | none *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING» | | 3 | **stay** | gerund | none *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | past | girl | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **make** | past | girl | girl's clothes | | a bundle | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent clothes=Material into bundle=Product | | 6 | **walk** | past | girl *not said here* | | | the hills | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | | 7 | **reach** | past | girl | the house of the man | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 8 | **own** | past | the man | the fields | | that part of the country | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/18/) - ↑ back to [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/)