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title: Once her heart would have been glad at the sight, but now that they… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once her heart would have been glad at the sight, but now that they two were alone in the world she feared some harm might come of it. Who acts: heart, mother, wife, world. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 8

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Once her heart would have been glad at the sight, but now that they two were alone in the world she feared some harm might come of it.

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**Who acts:** heart, mother, wife, world · **What happens:** be, fear, come · **To what, where:** sight, world, harm

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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 (heart, mother, wife, world), 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:pg641:31:8
# text = Once her heart would have been glad at the sight, but now that they two were alone in the world she feared some harm might come of it.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · perfect | wife's heart |  |  | the sight |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | mother |  |  | the world | now | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** | past | wife | some harm |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | might | the world |  |  |  |  | of heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial\_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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