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title: When they had spent three days together, chatting and caressing one… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had spent three days together, chatting and caressing one another, the herd came back to the king, and demanded his lamb. Who acts: wings, herd. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 28

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When they had spent three days together, chatting and caressing one another, the herd came back to the king, and demanded his lamb.

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**Who acts:** wings, herd · **What happens:** spend, chat, caress, come back, demand · **To what, where:** one, lamb

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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 (wings, herd), 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:pg641:37:28
# text = When they had spent three days together, chatting and caressing one another, the herd came back to the king, and demanded his lamb.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	chatting	chat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	caressing	caress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | past · perfect | wings *= wing* |  |  |  | day | together *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chat** *speech: other* | gerund | wings *= wing* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **caress** | gerund | wings *= wing* *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come back** | past | the herd |  |  |  |  | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | the herd *not said here* | king's lamb |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lamb=Precondition |

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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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