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title: He bade Hans come with him, but, as the town was only a few hours’ r… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He bade Hans come with him, but, as the town was only a few hours’ ride from where he lived, the minister was much surprised to see Hans come forth laden with a bag containing food. Who acts: minister, Hans, bag. 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 58

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He bade Hans come with him, but, as the town was only a few hours’ ride from where he lived, the minister was much surprised to see Hans come forth laden with a bag containing food.

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**Who acts:** minister, Hans, bag · **What happens:** come, be, live, see, lade, contain · **To what, where:** hours ride, food · **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 (minister, Hans, bag), 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:pg641:33:58
# text = He bade Hans come with him, but, as the town was only a few hours’ ride from where he lived, the minister was much surprised to see Hans come forth laden with a bag containing food.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	much	much	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
34	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	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 | **come** | present | minister |  |  |  |  | with agreement | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | hours ride |  |  |  | as the town | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | minister |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the minister |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | the minister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** | present | Hans |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **lade** | participle | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a bag | tree rules |
| 8 | **contain** | gerund | a bag *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |

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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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