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title: His mother welcomed him back with tears in her eyes, and his poor ki… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 29

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His mother welcomed him back with tears in her eyes, and his poor kinsmen pressed round him, but the rich ones kept away, for they feared that they would no longer be able to rob their kinsman as they had done for many years past.

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**Who acts:** mother, poor kinsmen, kinsmen · **What happens:** welcome back, press, keep away, fear, be, rob · **To what, where:** Virgilius, rich ones, kinsman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, poor kinsmen, kinsmen), 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:pg641:43:29
# text = His mother welcomed him back with tears in her eyes, and his poor kinsmen pressed round him, but the rich ones kept away, for they feared that they would no longer be able to rob their kinsman as they had done for many years past.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	kinsmen	kinsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
24	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
32	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
33	no	no	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
36	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	rob	rob	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
48	past	past	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome back** | past | Virgilius's mother | Virgilius |  |  |  | with tears in mother's eyes | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **press** | past | Virgilius's poor kinsmen | the rich ones |  |  |  | round Virgilius | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent round he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep away** | participle |  | the rich ones *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fear** | past | kinsmen *= kinsman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | would | kinsmen *= kinsman* |  |  |  |  | able, long *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **rob** | to-infinitive | kinsmen *= kinsman* *not said here* | kinsmen's kinsman |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kinsman=Source |
| 7 | **do** | past · perfect | kinsmen *= kinsman* |  |  |  | year | past *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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