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title: Off went Hans to the kitchen, and got as much as he could eat; then… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Off went Hans to the kitchen, and got as much as he could eat; then he went and took a midday nap which lasted till supper-time. Who acts: squire, midday nap. 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 87

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Off went Hans to the kitchen, and got as much as he could eat; then he went and took a midday nap which lasted till supper-time.

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**Who acts:** squire, midday nap · **What happens:** go, get, eat, take, last · **To what, where:** Hans, much, midday nap

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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 (squire, midday nap), 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:pg5615:12:87
# text = Off went Hans to the kitchen, and got as much as he could eat; then he went and took a midday nap which lasted till supper-time.
1	Off	off	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	till	till	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  | Hans |  |  |  | to the kitchen; off *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location han=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 3 | **eat** | could | squire |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past | squire |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | squire *not said here* | a midday nap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme |
| 6 | **last** | past | a midday nap |  |  |  | time |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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