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title: On coming to the gate leading into the forest, he was unfortunate en… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On coming to the gate leading into the forest, he was unfortunate enough to break it in pieces, so he took a huge stone that was lying on the field, seven ells long, and seven ells broad, and set this in the gap, then he went on and joined the others. Who acts: Hans, huge stone. A sentence of «The P
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 100

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On coming to the gate leading into the forest, he was unfortunate enough to break it in pieces, so he took a huge stone that was lying on the field, seven ells long, and seven ells broad, and set this in the gap, then he went on and joined the others.

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**Who acts:** Hans, huge stone · **What happens:** come, lead, be, break, take, lie · **To what, where:** gate, forest, difficulty, pieces, huge stone, field

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, huge stone), 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:pg5615:12:100
# text = On coming to the gate leading into the forest, he was unfortunate enough to break it in pieces, so he took a huge stone that was lying on the field, seven ells long, and seven ells broad, and set this in the gap, then he went on and joined the others.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	ells	ell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
45	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
53	on	on	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Hans *not said here* |  |  | the gate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | Hans *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into forest=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Hans |  |  |  |  | enough, unfortunate *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | to-infinitive | Hans *not said here* | difficulty |  | pieces |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | past | Hans | a huge stone |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 6 | **lie** | past · progressive | a huge stone |  |  | the field |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on field=Location |
| 7 | **set** | infinitive | Hans *not said here* | this |  | the gap |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme in gap=Destination |
| 8 | **go on** | past | Hans |  |  |  | then |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **join** | past | Hans *not said here* | the others |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient |

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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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