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title: But at the first word of explanation the man became beside himself w… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But at the first word of explanation the man became beside himself with joy, and he sprang so high into the air that the false soul which the elves had given him flew out of his mouth, and his own, which had been shut tightly into the flask of water, took its place. Who acts: man, false soul. A sent
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 65

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But at the first word of explanation the man became beside himself with joy, and he sprang so high into the air that the false soul which the elves had given him flew out of his mouth, and his own, which had been shut tightly into the flask of water, took its place.

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**Who acts:** man, false soul · **What happens:** become, spring, give, fly out, shut, take · **To what, where:** first word, air, elves, man, mouth, flask

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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 (man, false soul), 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:pg641:44:65
# text = But at the first word of explanation the man became beside himself with joy, and he sprang so high into the air that the false soul which the elves had given him flew out of his mouth, and his own, which had been shut tightly into the flask of water, took its place.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
45	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
48	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
56	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the man |  |  | the first word of explanation |  | beside man; with joy | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **spring** | past | man |  |  | the air |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the elves | man |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly out** | past | the false soul | man's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 5 | **shut** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the flask of water |  | tightly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **take** | past | the man *not said here* | soul's place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | explanation |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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