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title: But she could do nothing as long as the emperor remained with his wi… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she could do nothing as long as the emperor remained with his wife night and day, and she began to wonder what she could do to get him away from her. Who acts: mother, emperor. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 24

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But she could do nothing as long as the emperor remained with his wife night and day, and she began to wonder what she could do to get him away from her.

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**Who acts:** mother, emperor · **What happens:** do, remain, begin, wonder, get · **To what, where:** nothing, emperor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, emperor), 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:pg641:35:24
# text = But she could do nothing as long as the emperor remained with his wife night and day, and she began to wonder what she could do to get him away from her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | mother | nothing |  |  |  | long *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the emperor |  |  |  | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **do** | could | mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **get** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | emperor |  |  |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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