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title: Each one had made for his hole as fast as his legs could carry him,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each one had made for his hole as fast as his legs could carry him, so that the Princess could safely take her pot of pinks. Who acts: legs, Princess. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 84

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Each one had made for his hole as fast as his legs could carry him, so that the Princess could safely take her pot of pinks.

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**Who acts:** legs, Princess · **What happens:** make, carry, take · **To what, where:** one, Bruno, pot

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs, Princess), 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:pg503:22:84
# text = Each one had made for his hole as fast as his legs could carry him, so that the Princess could safely take her pot of pinks.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pinks	pink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | each one |  |  |  | for Bruno's hole; fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for hole=Asset |
| 2 | **carry** | could | Bruno's legs | Bruno |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | could | the Princess | Princess's pot of pinks |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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