--- title: Delighted at this discovery, he was about to hasten to the village w… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Delighted at this discovery, he was about to hasten to the village when he heard a woman’s voice weeping and lamenting, and calling on the men to take pity on her and help her. Who acts: sun, calling, woman. 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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 (sun, calling, woman), 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:pg641:4:185 # text = Delighted at this discovery, he was about to hasten to the village when he heard a woman’s voice weeping and lamenting, and calling on the men to take pity on her and help her. 1 Delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 discovery discovery NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hasten hasten VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 lamenting lament VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 csubj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 32 pity pity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | sun | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hasten** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | | | the village | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | | 3 | **hear** | past | sun | a woman's voice weeping | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus | | 4 | **lament** | gerund | sun *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **call** | gerund | | | | | | on the men | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | calling | pity | | | | on woman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on she=Destination | | 7 | **help** | infinitive | calling *not said here* | | woman | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 8 | **weep** | | a woman | | | | | | nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=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 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/184/) - next →: [sentence 186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/186/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)