--- title: But as years passed away, his head grew weary of making plans of cam… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But as years passed away, his head grew weary of making plans of campaign, and his people wanted to stay at home and till their fields, and at last he too felt that he must do homage to the other emperor. Who acts: years, head, people, king. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, head, people, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:38:4 # text = But as years passed away, his head grew weary of making plans of campaign, and his people wanted to stay at home and till their fields, and at last he too felt that he must do homage to the other emperor. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 5 away away ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 of of SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 13 plans plan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 campaign campaign NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 till till ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 too too ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 40 homage homage NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass away** | participle | years | | | | | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **grow** | past | king's head | | | | | weary *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **make** | gerund | king's head *not said here* | plans of campaign | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product | | 4 | **want** | past | king's people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | king's people *not said here* | | | home and people's fields | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 6 | **feel** | past | king | | | last | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **do** | must | king | homage | | | | to the other emperor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality | | 8 | **plan** | | | campaign | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/5/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/38/)