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title: Then he opened a little window in the roof and let down the chain fr… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he opened a little window in the roof and let down the chain from which the kettle usually hung, and tried to hook the bed covering and to draw it up. Who acts: youth, kettle. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 97

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Then he opened a little window in the roof and let down the chain from which the kettle usually hung, and tried to hook the bed covering and to draw it up.

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**Who acts:** youth, kettle · **What happens:** open, let down, hang, try, hook, cover · **To what, where:** little window, roof, chain, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (youth, kettle), 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:pg5615:1:97
# text = Then he opened a little window in the roof and let down the chain from which the kettle usually hung, and tried to hook the bed covering and to draw it up.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hook	hook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | youth | a little window |  | the roof | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent window=Theme in roof=Location |
| 2 | **let down** | infinitive | youth *not said here* | the chain |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the kettle |  |  | the chain |  | usually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **try** | past | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **hook** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | the bed |  |  |  |  | vn rotate-51.9.1-1 «NP V NP.extent»: agent=Theme bed=Extent |
| 6 | **cover** | gerund | youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **draw up** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | bed |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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