--- title: He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, and if he caught sight of a beggar anywhere near his house, he would order the servants to drive him away, or would set the dogs at him. Who acts: Mark. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderf --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/2/) [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 Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/) / 2 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 2 He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, and if he caught sight of a beggar anywhere near his house, he would order the servants to drive him away, or would set the dogs at him. **Who acts:** Mark · **What happens:** be, not bear, catch, order, drive away, set · **To what, where:** hard hearted man, poor people, sight, servants, Mark, dogs This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mark), 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:pg641:4:2 # text = He was a very hard-hearted man, for he could not bear poor people, and if he caught sight of a beggar anywhere near his house, he would order the servants to drive him away, or would set the dogs at him. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 hearted hearted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 15 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 22 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 beggar beggar NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 anywhere anywhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 27 near near ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 order order VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 at at ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Mark | a hard hearted man | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **bear** | could | Mark | poor people | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 3 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Mark | sight of a beggar | | | | anywhere *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 4 | **order** | would | Mark | the servants | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | | 5 | **drive away** | to-infinitive | Mark *not said here* | Mark | | | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **set** | would | Mark *not said here* | the dogs | | | | at Mark | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme at he=Destination | | 7 | **sight** | | | a beggar | | | | | nom sight «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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/3/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)