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title: Some time after her mistress said to Catherine, ‘I am obliged to go… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some time after her mistress said to Catherine, ‘I am obliged to go out for a long while, and must lock the house door, so that no thieves shall get in.’ Who acts: thieves. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 86

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Some time after her mistress said to Catherine, ‘I am obliged to go out for a long while, and must lock the house door, so that no thieves shall get in.’

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**Who acts:** thieves · **What happens:** say, oblige, go out, lock, get in · **To what, where:** Catherine, I, house door · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves), 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:pg5615:18:86
# text = Some time after her mistress said to Catherine, ‘I am obliged to go out for a long while, and must lock the house door, so that no thieves shall get in.’
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	lock	lock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Catherine |  | after woman's mistress; time |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to catherine=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **oblige** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 3 | **go out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | while | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lock** | must |  | the house door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 5 | **get in** | shall | no thieves |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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