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title: Pinkel,' they called him in scorn, and by-and-by 'Pinkel' became his… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Pinkel,' they called him in scorn, and by-and-by 'Pinkel' became his name throughout the village. Who acts: Pinkel, story. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 33

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Pinkel,' they called him in scorn, and by-and-by 'Pinkel' became his name throughout the village.

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**Who acts:** Pinkel, story · **What happens:** call, become, name · **To what, where:** story, scorn, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, story), 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:pg3027:16:33
# text = Pinkel,' they called him in scorn, and by-and-by 'Pinkel' became his name throughout the village.
1	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Pinkel |  | story | scorn |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **become** | past | Pinkel *not said here* | story's name |  |  | throughout the village | by Pinkel | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient name=Result |
| 3 | **name** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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