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title: And she took service with him and laboured for him early and late, a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 18

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And she took service with him and laboured for him early and late, and every night when she went to bed she was at peace, for she had not forgotten one thing that she had promised her mother; and, however hot the sun might be, she always kept the wooden helmet on her head, and the people gave her the nickname of Hatschihime.

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**Who acts:** girl, sun, people · **What happens:** take, labour, go, be, not forget, promise · **To what, where:** service, bed, peace, one thing, mother, wooden helmet

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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 (girl, sun, people), 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:pg641:31:18
# text = And she took service with him and laboured for him early and late, and every night when she went to bed she was at peace, for she had not forgotten one thing that she had promised her mother; and, however hot the sun might be, she always kept the wooden helmet on her head, and the people gave her the nickname of Hatschihime.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	laboured	labour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	however	however	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	53	advmod	_	_
53	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nsubj	_	_
64	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
65	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	iobj	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
69	Hatschihime	Hatschihime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | girl | service |  |  | night | with couple | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme |
| 2 | **labour** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for couple; early *property* | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | girl |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | girl |  |  | peace |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **forget** | past · perfect | girl | one thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect · passive |  | one thing | girl's mother |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal mother=Theme |
| 7 | **be** | might | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **keep** | past | girl | the wooden helmet |  | girl's head |  | always *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme on head=Location |
| 9 | **give** | past | the people | the nickname of Hatschihime | girl |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient nickname=Theme |
| 10 | **nickname** |  |  | Hatschihime |  |  |  |  | nom nickname «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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