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title: There they found the grandmother and everything just as it had been,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There they found the grandmother and everything just as it had been, but when they went through the doorway they found they were grown-up. Who acts: hands, sweetheart. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 153

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There they found the grandmother and everything just as it had been, but when they went through the doorway they found they were grown-up.

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**Who acts:** hands, sweetheart · **What happens:** find, be, go, grow up · **To what, where:** grandmother, doorway, hands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, sweetheart), 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:pg5615:10:153
# text = There they found the grandmother and everything just as it had been, but when they went through the doorway they found they were grown-up.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | hands *= hand* | the grandmother |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past · perfect | sweetheart |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  | the doorway |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through doorway=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | hands *= hand* | the doorway *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent doorway=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 5 | **grow up** | past · passive |  | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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