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title: But in his hurry to enter he touched with his hand the spike of hurt… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in his hurry to enter he touched with his hand the spike of hurt, and sank down where he stood, wrapped in slumber. Who acts: robber, hurt. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 108

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But in his hurry to enter he touched with his hand the spike of hurt, and sank down where he stood, wrapped in slumber.

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**Who acts:** robber, hurt · **What happens:** enter, touch, sink down, stand, wrap, hurry · **To what, where:** spike, hurry, slumber

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (robber, hurt), 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:pg3454:16:108
# text = But in his hurry to enter he touched with his hand the spike of hurt, and sank down where he stood, wrapped in slumber.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spike	spike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | to-infinitive | robber *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | past | robber | the spike of hurt |  | robber's hurry |  | with robber's hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spike=Experiencer with hand=Instrument |
| 3 | **sink down** | past | robber *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **stand** | past | robber |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wrap** | participle | robber *not said here* |  |  | slumber |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in slumber=Destination |
| 6 | **hurry** |  | robber |  |  |  |  |  | nom hurry «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **spike** |  | hurt |  |  |  |  |  | nom spike «event intransitive»: of=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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