--- title: The hearts of the elves were quite melted, and they did all they cou… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The hearts of the elves were quite melted, and they did all they could to comfort him. Who acts: hearts. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/48/) [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/) / [Mogarzea and His Son](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/) / 48 # The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 48 The hearts of the elves were quite melted, and they did all they could to comfort him. **Who acts:** hearts · **What happens:** melt, do, comfort · **To what, where:** hearts, all, boy This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts), 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:pg641:44:48 # text = The hearts of the elves were quite melted, and they did all they could to comfort him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 elves elf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 7 quite quite ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 melted melt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 obj _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 comfort comfort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **melt** | past · passive | | the hearts of the elves | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | | 2 | **do** | past | hearts *= heart* | all | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | | 3 | **comfort** | to-infinitive | hearts *= heart* *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/49/) - ↑ back to [Mogarzea and His Son](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/44/)