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title: But when at last he got there he found neither pavilions nor nymphs,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when at last he got there he found neither pavilions nor nymphs, and though he went back many nights after he never saw them again. Who acts: sun. 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 ev
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 45

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But when at last he got there he found neither pavilions nor nymphs, and though he went back many nights after he never saw them again.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** get, find, go back, not see · **To what, where:** last, neither pavilions, pavilions

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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 (sun), 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:pg641:34:45
# text = But when at last he got there he found neither pavilions nor nymphs, and though he went back many nights after he never saw them again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	neither	neither	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pavilions	pavilion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
13	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | sun |  |  | last; there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **find** | past | sun | neither pavilions nor nymphs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pavilion=Topic |
| 3 | **go back** | past | sun |  |  |  | night |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past | sun | pavilions *= pavilion* |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

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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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