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title: In spite, however, of all her care the fame of her beauty spread abr… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite, however, of all her care the fame of her beauty spread abroad: many of the impudent young men that are always to be found in the world stole softly up behind her while she was at work, and tried to lift off the wooden helmet. Who acts: beauty, many, girl. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Bo
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 19

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In spite, however, of all her care the fame of her beauty spread abroad: many of the impudent young men that are always to be found in the world stole softly up behind her while she was at work, and tried to lift off the wooden helmet.

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**Who acts:** beauty, many, girl · **What happens:** care, spread, find, steal, be, try · **To what, where:** fame, spite, impudent young men, world, work, 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 (beauty, many, 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:pg641:31:19
# text = In spite, however, of all her care the fame of her beauty spread abroad: many of the impudent young men that are always to be found in the world stole softly up behind her while she was at work, and tried to lift off the wooden helmet.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	care	care	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	impudent	impudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
34	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	up	up	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	_
38	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	xcomp	_	_
48	off	off	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** | imperative |  | the fame |  | spite |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | past | girl's beauty | the fame *not said here* |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fame=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive | many of the impudent young men *not said here* | the impudent young men |  | the world |  | always *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: that=Topic |
| 4 | **steal** | past | many of the impudent young men |  |  |  |  | behind girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind she=Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | girl |  |  | work |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **try** | past | many of the impudent young men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **lift off** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many of the impudent young men *not said here* | the wooden helmet |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=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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