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title: The mound then opened, and his youngest daughter came out of it, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The mound then opened, and his youngest daughter came out of it, and said, ‘Why, father! why are you not coming in to see me?’ Who acts: mound, youngest daughter, father. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 95

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The mound then opened, and his youngest daughter came out of it, and said, ‘Why, father! why are you not coming in to see me?’

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**Who acts:** mound, youngest daughter, father · **What happens:** open, come out, say, not come in, see · **To what, where:** bread, me · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mound, youngest daughter, father), 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:pg5615:16:95
# text = The mound then opened, and his youngest daughter came out of it, and said, ‘Why, father! why are you not coming in to see me?’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the mound |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | mound's youngest daughter | bread |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the mound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **come in** | present · progressive | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | father *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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