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title: The two eldest of these lived in rioting and feasting, and thus wast… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The two eldest of these lived in rioting and feasting, and thus wasted and squandered their father’s wealth till nothing remained, and they found themselves in want and misery. Who acts: eldest, rioting. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, w
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 2

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The two eldest of these lived in rioting and feasting, and thus wasted and squandered their father’s wealth till nothing remained, and they found themselves in want and misery.

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**Who acts:** eldest, rioting · **What happens:** live, waste, squander, remain, find · **To what, where:** rioting, wealth, want

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, rioting), 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:pg641:37:2
# text = The two eldest of these lived in rioting and feasting, and thus wasted and squandered their father’s wealth till nothing remained, and they found themselves in want and misery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rioting	rioting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	wasted	waste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	squandered	squander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obl	_	_
23	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | participle | the eldest of these |  |  | rioting and feasting |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rioting=Location |
| 2 | **waste** | past |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **squander** | past |  | rioting's father's wealth |  |  | till nothing |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Asset |
| 4 | **remain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | rioting | rioting |  | want and misery |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |

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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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