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title: Hans was to give up the ringing, and was to work like the rest from… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans was to give up the ringing, and was to work like the rest from sunrise to sunset, with the exception of an hour after breakfast and an hour after dinner, when he might go to sleep. Who acts: Hans, agreement. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, with its dep
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 53

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Hans was to give up the ringing, and was to work like the rest from sunrise to sunset, with the exception of an hour after breakfast and an hour after dinner, when he might go to sleep.

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**Who acts:** Hans, agreement · **What happens:** give up, be, go, except · **To what, where:** ringing, sleep, hour

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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 (Hans, agreement), 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:pg641:33:53
# text = Hans was to give up the ringing, and was to work like the rest from sunrise to sunset, with the exception of an hour after breakfast and an hour after dinner, when he might go to sleep.
1	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ringing	ringing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | Hans | the ringing |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringing=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the rest from sunrise to sunset; work *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | might | agreement |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **except** |  |  | a hour |  |  | after breakfast and a hour; after dinner |  | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient after=obl after=obl |

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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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