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title: Strolling about in the early morning, he caught sight of the girl wi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Strolling about in the early morning, he caught sight of the girl with the odd wooden helmet on her head, and immediately he went to his mother to ask who she was, and where she came from, and why she wore that strange thing over her face. Who acts: Hatschihime, girl. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 27

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Strolling about in the early morning, he caught sight of the girl with the odd wooden helmet on her head, and immediately he went to his mother to ask who she was, and where she came from, and why she wore that strange thing over her face.

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**Who acts:** Hatschihime, girl · **What happens:** stroll, catch, go, ask, come, wear · **To what, where:** sight, face, girl

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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 (Hatschihime, 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:pg641:31:27
# text = Strolling about in the early morning, he caught sight of the girl with the odd wooden helmet on her head, and immediately he went to his mother to ask who she was, and where she came from, and why she wore that strange thing over her face.
1	Strolling	stroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
46	that	that	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	over	over	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	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 | **stroll** | gerund | Hatschihime *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Hatschihime | sight of the girl |  |  |  | with the odd wooden helmet on girl's head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | Hatschihime |  |  |  |  | to Hatschihime's mother; immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Hatschihime *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wear** | past | girl |  |  | girl's face |  | that strange thing | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sight** |  |  | the girl |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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