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title: Hans thought his last hour was come, when just as the fight was at t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans thought his last hour was come, when just as the fight was at the hottest another little dwarf arrived on the scene. Who acts: Hans, fight. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 105

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Hans thought his last hour was come, when just as the fight was at the hottest another little dwarf arrived on the scene.

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**Who acts:** Hans, fight · **What happens:** think, come, be, arrive · **To what, where:** last hour, hottest little dwarf, scene · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, fight), 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:pg641:33:105
# text = Hans thought his last hour was come, when just as the fight was at the hottest another little dwarf arrived on the scene.
1	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Hans |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · passive |  | Hans's last hour |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the fight |  |  |  |  | at the hottest little dwarf | tree rules |
| 4 | **arrive** | participle |  | the hottest little dwarf *not said here* |  | the scene |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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