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title: Next he drew their scarlet caps from their heads and exchanged them… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next he drew their scarlet caps from their heads and exchanged them for the veils which the ogre’s daughters were wearing. Who acts: Halfman, daughters. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 27

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Next he drew their scarlet caps from their heads and exchanged them for the veils which the ogre’s daughters were wearing.

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**Who acts:** Halfman, daughters · **What happens:** draw, exchange, wear · **To what, where:** scarlet caps, heads, caps, veils

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halfman, daughters), 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:pg641:41:27
# text = Next he drew their scarlet caps from their heads and exchanged them for the veils which the ogre’s daughters were wearing.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	veils	veil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Halfman | girls's scarlet caps |  | girls's heads |  | next *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent cap=Theme from head=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **exchange** | past | Halfman *not said here* | caps *= cap* |  |  |  | for the veils | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme for veil=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **wear** | past · progressive | the ogre's daughters | the veils |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source |

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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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