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title: But just as he stretched out his hand to take it he received from so… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as he stretched out his hand to take it he received from some invisible being so hard a blow on the arm that it was made quite numb. Who acts: prince, some, arm. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 32

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But just as he stretched out his hand to take it he received from some invisible being so hard a blow on the arm that it was made quite numb.

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**Who acts:** prince, some, arm · **What happens:** stretch out, take, receive, be, make · **To what, where:** hand, invisible blow

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, some, arm), 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:pg5615:15:32
# text = But just as he stretched out his hand to take it he received from some invisible being so hard a blow on the arm that it was made quite numb.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
16	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	numb	numb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | prince | prince's hand |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | prince *not said here* | hand |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **receive** | past | prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | some |  |  | a invisible blow |  | on the arm; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | past · passive | the arm *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | numb *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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