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title: And when he felt his limbs, and found them whole, his joy was great… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he felt his limbs, and found them whole, his joy was great that he had come through such perils with a sound skin. Who acts: noise, joy. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 35

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And when he felt his limbs, and found them whole, his joy was great that he had come through such perils with a sound skin.

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**Who acts:** noise, joy · **What happens:** feel, find, be, come, joy · **To what, where:** limbs, such perils

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, joy), 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:pg641:34:35
# text = And when he felt his limbs, and found them whole, his joy was great that he had come through such perils with a sound skin.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	perils	peril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | noise | noise's limbs |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | noise *not said here* | limbs *= limb* |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | noise's joy |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past · perfect | noise |  |  | such perils with a sound skin |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through peril=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **joy** |  | noise |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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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