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title: This hindered their progress, and by the time they had entered the t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This hindered their progress, and by the time they had entered the thick wood which lay between them and their destination the sun was already touching the tops of the trees. Who acts: This, Hans, thick wood, destination. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs, wit
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 66

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This hindered their progress, and by the time they had entered the thick wood which lay between them and their destination the sun was already touching the tops of the trees.

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**Who acts:** This, Hans, thick wood, destination · **What happens:** hinder, enter, lie, touch, progress · **To what, where:** progress, thick wood, tops

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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 (This, Hans, thick wood, destination), 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:pg641:33:66
# text = This hindered their progress, and by the time they had entered the thick wood which lay between them and their destination the sun was already touching the tops of the trees.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	destination	destination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	already	already	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hinder** | past | This | Hans's progress |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer progress=Eventuality |
| 2 | **enter** | past · perfect | Hans *= han* | the thick wood |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the thick wood |  |  |  |  | between Hans *= han* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between they=Location |
| 4 | **touch** | past · progressive | Hans's destination | the tops of the trees |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme top=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **progress** |  | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=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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