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title: They reached it at last, and found an empty kennel standing in front… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They reached it at last, and found an empty kennel standing in front of the gate. Who acts: dozens, empty kennel. 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 74

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They reached it at last, and found an empty kennel standing in front of the gate.

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**Who acts:** dozens, empty kennel · **What happens:** reach, find, stand · **To what, where:** hill, last, empty kennel, front

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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 (dozens, empty kennel), 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:pg641:9:74
# text = They reached it at last, and found an empty kennel standing in front of the gate.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kennel	kennel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | dozens *= dozen* | hill |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **find** | past | dozens *= dozen* *not said here* | a empty kennel |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kennel=Topic |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a empty kennel *not said here* |  |  | front of the gate |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |

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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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