---
title: Not very long after Hatschihime had become maid to the sick woman, t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not very long after Hatschihime had become maid to the sick woman, the eldest son of the house returned home from Kioto, where he had been studying all sorts of things. Who acts: Hatschihime, eldest son, son. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, wi
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/25/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 25

# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 25

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Not very long after Hatschihime had become maid to the sick woman, the eldest son of the house returned home from Kioto, where he had been studying all sorts of things.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hatschihime, eldest son, son · **What happens:** become, return, study, sort · **To what, where:** maid, Kioto, sorts, things

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Hatschihime, eldest son, son), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg641:31:25
# text = Not very long after Hatschihime had become maid to the sick woman, the eldest son of the house returned home from Kioto, where he had been studying all sorts of things.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	Hatschihime	Hatschihime	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Kioto	Kioto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux	_	_
29	studying	study	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | Hatschihime | maid to the sick woman |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **return** | past | the eldest son of the house |  |  | Kioto |  | home, long *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from kioto=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **study** | past · perfect · progressive | son | all sorts of things |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Topic |
| 4 | **sort** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/24/)
- next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/26/)
- ↑ back to [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/)