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title: He slept both well and long, and all the rest were up and at their w… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He slept both well and long, and all the rest were up and at their work while he was still sleeping soundly. Who acts: Hans. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 56

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He slept both well and long, and all the rest were up and at their work while he was still sleeping soundly.

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**Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** sleep up, sleep, work

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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), 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:pg5615:12:56
# text = He slept both well and long, and all the rest were up and at their work while he was still sleeping soundly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
23	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep up** | past | Hans |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** | past · progressive | Hans |  |  |  | still | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** |  | Hans *= han* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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