--- title: One hot day, however, he happened to be going towards home when he c… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One hot day, however, he happened to be going towards home when he caught sight of his mother’s waiting maid kneeling by a little stream that flowed through the garden, splashing some water over her face. Who acts: One hot day, Hatschihime, going, maid. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/29/) [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/) / 29 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 29 One hot day, however, he happened to be going towards home when he caught sight of his mother’s waiting maid kneeling by a little stream that flowed through the garden, splashing some water over her face. **Who acts:** One hot day, Hatschihime, going, maid, little stream · **What happens:** happen, go, catch, wait, kneel, flow · **To what, where:** home, sight, maid, garden, water, face 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 (One hot day, Hatschihime, going, maid), 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:pg641:31:29 # text = One hot day, however, he happened to be going towards home when he caught sight of his mother’s waiting maid kneeling by a little stream that flowed through the garden, splashing some water over her face. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 however however ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 csubj _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 23 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 kneeling kneel VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 stream stream NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 flowed flow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 splashing splash VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 36 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | One hot day | | | | | however *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go** | to-infinitive · progressive | | | | home | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards home=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **catch** | past | Hatschihime | sight of Hatschihime's mother | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 4 | **wait** | present · progressive | going | maid | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **kneel** | gerund | maid *not said here* | | | | | by a little stream | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stream=Location | | 6 | **flow** | past | a little stream | | | the garden | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Location | | 7 | **splash** | gerund | going *not said here* | some water | | girl's face | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over face=Destination | | 8 | **sight** | | | Hatschihime's mother | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/30/) - ↑ back to [The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/31/)