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title: I was well feasted and entertained, and I have money in my pocket in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I was well feasted and entertained, and I have money in my pocket into the bargain,’ he went on, rattling some coins while he spoke, to make Hans understand how much he had lost. Who acts: I, master, Hans. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 128

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I was well feasted and entertained, and I have money in my pocket into the bargain,’ he went on, rattling some coins while he spoke, to make Hans understand how much he had lost.

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**Who acts:** I, master, Hans · **What happens:** feast, have, go on, rattle, speak, make · **To what, where:** I, money, pocket, coins, much · **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 (I, master, 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:pg641:33:128
# text = I was well feasted and entertained, and I have money in my pocket into the bargain,’ he went on, rattling some coins while he spoke, to make Hans understand how much he had lost.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	feasted	feast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	entertained	entertained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	rattling	rattle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
36	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obj	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feast** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | money |  | my pocket |  | into the bargain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 3 | **go on** | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rattle** | gerund | master *not said here* | some coins |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | master *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **understand** | infinitive | Hans | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 8 | **lose** | past · perfect | master |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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