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title: When, however, the servants all gathered round the table for dinner,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When, however, the servants all gathered round the table for dinner, Hans at last made his appearance stretching himself and yawning. Who acts: servants, 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 44

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When, however, the servants all gathered round the table for dinner, Hans at last made his appearance stretching himself and yawning.

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**Who acts:** servants, Hans · **What happens:** gather, make, stretch, yawn · **To what, where:** appearance, servant

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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 (servants, 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:pg641:33:44
# text = When, however, the servants all gathered round the table for dinner, Hans at last made his appearance stretching himself and yawning.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	yawning	yawn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the servants |  |  |  |  | round the table; for dinner; all *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for dinner=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **make** | past | Hans at last | servant's appearance |  |  |  | however *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
| 3 | **stretch** | gerund | Hans at last *not said here* | servant |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **yawn** | gerund | Hans at last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «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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