--- title: So the girl at once attacked the other genius, and soon clove his sk… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the girl at once attacked the other genius, and soon clove his skull; then the one who was left victor begged her to come back with him to his house and he would hand her over Sunlight, as he had promised. Who acts: girl, one, other. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, pa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/) / 6 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2, sentence 6 So the girl at once attacked the other genius, and soon clove his skull; then the one who was left victor begged her to come back with him to his house and he would hand her over Sunlight, as he had promised. **Who acts:** girl, one, other · **What happens:** attack, clove, leave, beg, come back, hand · **To what, where:** other genius, skull, one, girl, house, Sunlight This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, one, other), 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:pg641:39:6 # text = So the girl at once attacked the other genius, and soon clove his skull; then the one who was left victor begged her to come back with him to his house and he would hand her over Sunlight, as he had promised. 1 So so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 3 nmod _ _ 5 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 6 advmod _ _ 6 attacked attack VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 genius genius NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 13 clove clove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 victor victor NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Sunlight Sunlight PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **attack** | past | the girl | the other genius | | | | once *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent genius=Patient | | 2 | **clove** | past | the girl *not said here* | other's skull | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | past · passive | | the one | | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme victor=Attribute | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the one | | girl | | then | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **come back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the one *not said here* | | | other's house | | with other | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **hand** | would | other | girl | | Sunlight | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · perfect | other | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/7/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/39/)