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title: In a moment they stood beside her, and the elder one said, ‘Do not b… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment they stood beside her, and the elder one said, ‘Do not be sad, all will go well,’ and they told the innkeeper that if any of the king’s servants wanted any birds for their master they were to be sent up to them, as they had three doves for sale. Who acts: sisters, elder one, all, any. A 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 83

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In a moment they stood beside her, and the elder one said, ‘Do not be sad, all will go well,’ and they told the innkeeper that if any of the king’s servants wanted any birds for their master they were to be sent up to them, as they had three doves for sale.

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**Who acts:** sisters, elder one, all, any · **What happens:** stand, say, not be, go, tell, want · **To what, where:** innkeeper, birds, sisters, three doves · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, elder one, all, any), 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:pg641:42:83
# text = In a moment they stood beside her, and the elder one said, ‘Do not be sad, all will go well,’ and they told the innkeeper that if any of the king’s servants wanted any birds for their master they were to be sent up to them, as they had three doves for sale.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	parataxis	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
40	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
41	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
42	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl:relcl	_	_
51	up	up	ADP	RP	_	50	compound:prt	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
58	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	59	nummod	_	_
59	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	sale	sale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | sisters *= sister* |  |  |  | moment | beside girl | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the elder one |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | future | all |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | sisters *= sister* | the innkeeper |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **want** | past | any | any birds |  |  |  | for sisters's master | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme |
| 7 | **send up** | past · passive | any *not said here* | sisters *= sister* | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to they=Destination |
| 8 | **have** | past | sisters *= sister* | three doves |  |  |  | for sale | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Patient |

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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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