--- title: They drove home, and Hans neglected none of his duties, but put up t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: They drove home, and Hans neglected none of his duties, but put up the horses and gave them their food before going to the church corner, where he found the loose stone, exactly in the place described by the dwarf. Who acts: men, Hans. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, Hans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:33:131 # text = They drove home, and Hans neglected none of his duties, but put up the horses and gave them their food before going to the church corner, where he found the loose stone, exactly in the place described by the dwarf. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 home home ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 neglected neglect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 7 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 duties duty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 24 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 41 described describe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | past | men *= man* | | | | | home *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **neglect** | past | Hans | none | | | | | vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | | 3 | **put up** | infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | | the horses | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent horse=Goal | | 4 | **give** | past | men *= man* *not said here* | men's food | men *= man* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme | | 5 | **go** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | | | the place | | to the church corner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to corner=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **find** | past | Hans | the loose stone | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | | 7 | **describe** | participle | | the place *not said here* | | | | by the dwarf | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/130/) - next →: [sentence 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/132/) - ↑ back to [The Headless Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/)