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title: The headless dwarfs listened to his words and disappeared as suddenl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The headless dwarfs listened to his words and disappeared as suddenly as they had come. Who acts: headless dwarfs, words, Hans. 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 110

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The headless dwarfs listened to his words and disappeared as suddenly as they had come.

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**Who acts:** headless dwarfs, words, Hans · **What happens:** listen, disappear, come, word

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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 (headless dwarfs, words, Hans), 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:pg641:33:110
# text = The headless dwarfs listened to his words and disappeared as suddenly as they had come.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	headless	headless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the headless dwarfs |  |  |  |  | to Hans's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 2 | **disappear** | past | the headless dwarfs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **word** |  | Hans |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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