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title: ‘How did you manage that?’ asked the minister eagerly, but Hans answ… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘How did you manage that?’ asked the minister eagerly, but Hans answered, ‘It is only fools who boast of their farthings; wise men take care to hide their crowns.’ Who acts: you, Hans, money, fools. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dependency tree a
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 130

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‘How did you manage that?’ asked the minister eagerly, but Hans answered, ‘It is only fools who boast of their farthings; wise men take care to hide their crowns.’

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**Who acts:** you, Hans, money, fools, wise men · **What happens:** manage, ask, answer, be, boast, take · **To what, where:** that, minister, fools, care, crowns · **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 (you, Hans, money, fools), 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:pg641:33:130
# text = ‘How did you manage that?’ asked the minister eagerly, but Hans answered, ‘It is only fools who boast of their farthings; wise men take care to hide their crowns.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	boast	boast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	farthings	farthing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
32	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **manage** | past · do-support | you | that |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past |  | the minister |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Hans |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | money | fools |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | fools |  |  |  |  | of Hans's farthings | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | present | wise men | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 7 | **hide** | to-infinitive | wise men *not said here* | Hans's crowns |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Patient |
| 8 | **crown** |  | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «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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