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title: The squire therefore made his way to the men’s quarters, to speak to… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The squire therefore made his way to the men’s quarters, to speak to Hans, and it took him all his time to push his way along the walls, under the eaves, on account of the fish that filled the yard. Who acts: squire, it, fish. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 68

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The squire therefore made his way to the men’s quarters, to speak to Hans, and it took him all his time to push his way along the walls, under the eaves, on account of the fish that filled the yard.

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**Who acts:** squire, it, fish · **What happens:** make, speak, take, push, fill, account · **To what, where:** way, Hans, eaves, walls, yard, fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (squire, it, fish), 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:pg5615:13:68
# text = The squire therefore made his way to the men’s quarters, to speak to Hans, and it took him all his time to push his way along the walls, under the eaves, on account of the fish that filled the yard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	along	along	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the squire | squire's way |  |  |  | to the men's quarters; therefore *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | Hans |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to hans=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | it | way |  | the eaves | time | on account of the fish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on account=Destination |
| 4 | **push** | to-infinitive |  | squire's way |  | the walls |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme along wall=Trajectory |
| 5 | **fill** | past | the fish | the yard |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yard=Patient |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | the fish |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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