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title: About an hour after some one arrived on business, and the girl untie… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: About an hour after some one arrived on business, and the girl untied the dog and said, ‘Go to the inn and call my father!’ Who acts: hour, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 123

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About an hour after some one arrived on business, and the girl untied the dog and said, ‘Go to the inn and call my father!’

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**Who acts:** hour, girl · **What happens:** arrive, untie, say, go, call · **To what, where:** business, dog, inn, father · **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 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, girl), 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:pg5615:17:123
# text = About an hour after some one arrived on business, and the girl untied the dog and said, ‘Go to the inn and call my father!’
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | a hour after some one |  |  | business |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **untie** | past | the girl | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a hour after some one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the inn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | my father |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient |

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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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