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title: The youngest, not knowing where to go, returned to the pond, sat dow… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngest, not knowing where to go, returned to the pond, sat down once more on the bank, and began to weep. Who acts: youngest. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 28

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The youngest, not knowing where to go, returned to the pond, sat down once more on the bank, and began to weep.

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**Who acts:** youngest · **What happens:** not know, go, return, sit down, begin, weep · **To what, where:** bank

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest), 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:pg641:36:28
# text = The youngest, not knowing where to go, returned to the pond, sat down once more on the bank, and began to weep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | to-infinitive | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **return** | past | the youngest |  |  |  |  | to the pond *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to pond=Result |
| 4 | **sit down** | past | the youngest *not said here* |  |  | the bank |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **weep** | to-infinitive | the youngest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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