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title: It was to no purpose that Sunday after Sunday the minister gave out… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was to no purpose that Sunday after Sunday the minister gave out from his pulpit that double wages would be paid to anyone that would fulfil the sacred duty of ringing the bells of the church. Who acts: end, Sunday, anyone, sacred duty. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The He
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 7

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It was to no purpose that Sunday after Sunday the minister gave out from his pulpit that double wages would be paid to anyone that would fulfil the sacred duty of ringing the bells of the church.

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**Who acts:** end, Sunday, anyone, sacred duty · **What happens:** be, give out, pay, fulfil, ring · **To what, where:** purpose, pulpit, sacred duty, bells

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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 (end, Sunday, anyone, sacred duty), 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:pg641:33:7
# text = It was to no purpose that Sunday after Sunday the minister gave out from his pulpit that double wages would be paid to anyone that would fulfil the sacred duty of ringing the bells of the church.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
7	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	wages	wage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	obl:agent	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	ringing	ring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | end |  |  |  |  | to no purpose | tree rules |
| 2 | **give out** | past | Sunday after Sunday | no purpose |  | minister's pulpit |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | would · passive | anyone | minister's pulpit |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 4 | **fulfil** | would |  | the sacred duty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **ring** | gerund | the sacred duty *not said here* | the bells of the church |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=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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