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title: Having made his boat fast to a tree, he walked up to the hut, hangin… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Having made his boat fast to a tree, he walked up to the hut, hanging his head, and putting on a face that was both sorrowful and ashamed. Who acts: Pinkel, face. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 42

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Having made his boat fast to a tree, he walked up to the hut, hanging his head, and putting on a face that was both sorrowful and ashamed.

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**Who acts:** Pinkel, face · **What happens:** have, make, walk up, hang, put, be · **To what, where:** made boat, hut, head, face

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pinkel, face), 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:pg3027:17:42
# text = Having made his boat fast to a tree, he walked up to the hut, hanging his head, and putting on a face that was both sorrowful and ashamed.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	advcl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	putting	put	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc:preconj	_	_
29	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Pinkel *not said here* | Pinkel's made boat |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **walk up** | past | Pinkel |  |  | the hut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund | Pinkel *not said here* | Pinkel's head |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **put** | gerund | Pinkel *not said here* |  |  | a face |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on face=Destination |
| 6 | **is** | past | a face |  |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | a face *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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