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title: Directly the young barber began his work, he, like the rest, remarke… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Directly the young barber began his work, he, like the rest, remarked the goat’s ears of the emperor, but when he had finished and the emperor asked his usual question as to whether the youth had noticed anything odd about him, the young man replied calmly, ‘No, nothing at all.’ Who acts: young barb
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 8

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Directly the young barber began his work, he, like the rest, remarked the goat’s ears of the emperor, but when he had finished and the emperor asked his usual question as to whether the youth had noticed anything odd about him, the young man replied calmly, ‘No, nothing at all.’

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**Who acts:** young barber, rest, emperor, young man, barber · **What happens:** begin, remark, finish, ask, notice, reply · **To what, where:** work, ears, usual question, youth

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young barber, rest, emperor, young man), 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:pg641:6:8
# text = Directly the young barber began his work, he, like the rest, remarked the goat’s ears of the emperor, but when he had finished and the emperor asked his usual question as to whether the youth had noticed anything odd about him, the young man replied calmly, ‘No, nothing at all.’
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
43	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	obj	_	_
44	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
45	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
52	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	57	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
57	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	51	parataxis	_	_
58	at	at	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | the young barber | barber's work |  |  |  | like the rest; emperor *obl*; directly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | the rest *not said here* | goat's ears of the emperor |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ear=Topic |
| 3 | **finish** | past · perfect | emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the emperor | emperor's usual question |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 5 | **notice** | past · perfect · passive |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | calmly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **work** |  | barber |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **question** |  | emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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