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title: His wife and daughter wept bitterly for his loss, and it was many mo… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His wife and daughter wept bitterly for his loss, and it was many months before they could take pleasure in anything. Who acts: wife, loss, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 6

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His wife and daughter wept bitterly for his loss, and it was many months before they could take pleasure in anything.

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**Who acts:** wife, loss, man · **What happens:** weep, be, take · **To what, where:** many months, pleasure, anything

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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 (wife, loss, man), 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:pg641:31:6
# text = His wife and daughter wept bitterly for his loss, and it was many months before they could take pleasure in anything.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
16	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
20	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past | couple's wife and daughter |  |  |  |  | for couple's loss; bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | loss | many months |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | could | man | pleasure |  | anything |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pleasure=Value in anything=Location |

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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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