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title: Old Eric eagerly promised this, if Hans would only let him go; so Ha… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Eric eagerly promised this, if Hans would only let him go; so Hans rowed ashore, ate up the rest of his provisions, and went home to bed. Who acts: Old Eric, Hans, Eric. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 62

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Old Eric eagerly promised this, if Hans would only let him go; so Hans rowed ashore, ate up the rest of his provisions, and went home to bed.

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**Who acts:** Old Eric, Hans, Eric · **What happens:** promise, let, go, row, eat up, provide · **To what, where:** this, Eric, rest, bed

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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 (Old Eric, Hans, Eric), 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:pg5615:13:62
# text = Old Eric eagerly promised this, if Hans would only let him go; so Hans rowed ashore, ate up the rest of his provisions, and went home to bed.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Eric	Eric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rowed	row	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	ashore	ashore	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Old Eric | this |  |  |  | eagerly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent this=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | Hans | Eric |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Eric *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **row** | past | Hans |  |  |  |  | ashore *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **eat up** | past | Hans *not said here* | the rest of Hans's provisions |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | past | Old Eric *not said here* |  |  | bed |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **provide** |  | Hans |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication 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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