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title: Then he climbed higher still, and finding as he went dumb watchers s… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he climbed higher still, and finding as he went dumb watchers sitting on every landing, treated them as he had done the first. Who acts: fellow, dumb watchers. 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 25

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Then he climbed higher still, and finding as he went dumb watchers sitting on every landing, treated them as he had done the first.

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**Who acts:** fellow, dumb watchers · **What happens:** climb, find, go, sit, treat, do · **To what, where:** dumb watchers, landing, watchers, first · **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 (fellow, dumb watchers), 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:pg641:33:25
# text = Then he climbed higher still, and finding as he went dumb watchers sitting on every landing, treated them as he had done the first.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	watchers	watcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	treated	treat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | fellow |  |  |  | then; still |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | fellow | dumb watchers |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location watcher=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | dumb watchers *not said here* |  |  | every landing |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on landing=Location |
| 5 | **treat** | past | fellow *not said here* | watchers *= watcher* |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 6 | **do** | past · perfect | fellow | the first |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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