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title: Then his great boarhound bounded up to him, but his caresses were on… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then his great boarhound bounded up to him, but his caresses were only answered by a violent push. Who acts: great boarhound, violent push, nurse. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 22

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Then his great boarhound bounded up to him, but his caresses were only answered by a violent push.

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**Who acts:** great boarhound, violent push, nurse · **What happens:** bound up, answer, caress · **To what, where:** nurse, caresses

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great boarhound, violent push, nurse), 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:pg641:9:22
# text = Then his great boarhound bounded up to him, but his caresses were only answered by a violent push.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	boarhound	boarhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	caresses	caress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	violent	violent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound up** | participle | nurse's great boarhound |  | nurse |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past · passive | a violent push | nurse's caresses |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **caress** |  | nurse |  |  |  |  |  | nom caress «act 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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