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title: Now the mother and daughter had plenty to do in keeping the house cl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the mother and daughter had plenty to do in keeping the house clean and looking after the garden, but the man would sit for hours together gazing straight in front of him, and thinking of the riches that once were his. Who acts: mother, man, that. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 4

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Now the mother and daughter had plenty to do in keeping the house clean and looking after the garden, but the man would sit for hours together gazing straight in front of him, and thinking of the riches that once were his.

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**Who acts:** mother, man, that · **What happens:** have, do, keep, look, sit, gaze · **To what, where:** plenty, house, couple

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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 (mother, man, that), 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:pg641:31:4
# text = Now the mother and daughter had plenty to do in keeping the house clean and looking after the garden, but the man would sit for hours together gazing straight in front of him, and thinking of the riches that once were his.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
29	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
42	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	44	advmod	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the mother and daughter | plenty |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | the mother and daughter *not said here* | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | the mother and daughter *not said here* | the house |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | gerund | the mother and daughter *not said here* |  |  |  | after the garden |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sit** | would | the man |  |  |  | hour | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **gaze** | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in front of couple; straight *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the riches | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is a** | past | that | couple |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |

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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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