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title: Hans therefore went down alone, and began to clean out the well, but… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hans therefore went down alone, and began to clean out the well, but the men had arranged how they were to act, and immediately each of them seized a stone from a heap of huge blocks, and threw them down above him, thinking to kill him with these. Who acts: Hans, men, each. A sentence of «The Pink F
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 34

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Hans therefore went down alone, and began to clean out the well, but the men had arranged how they were to act, and immediately each of them seized a stone from a heap of huge blocks, and threw them down above him, thinking to kill him with these.

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**Who acts:** Hans, men, each · **What happens:** go down, begin, clean out, arrange, act, seize · **To what, where:** the, stone, heap, men, Hans

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, men, each), 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:pg5615:13:34
# text = Hans therefore went down alone, and began to clean out the well, but the men had arranged how they were to act, and immediately each of them seized a stone from a heap of huge blocks, and threw them down above him, thinking to kill him with these.
1	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	obj	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	down	down	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
45	above	above	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | Hans |  |  |  |  | alone, down, therefore *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **clean out** | to-infinitive |  | the |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent the=Patient |
| 4 | **arrange** | past · perfect | the men |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **act** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **seize** | past | each | a stone |  | a heap of huge blocks |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Theme from heap=Source |
| 7 | **throw down** | past | Hans *not said here* | men *= man* |  |  |  | above Hans | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme above he=Destination |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **kill** | to-infinitive | Hans *not said here* | Hans |  |  |  | with these | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with this=Instrument |

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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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