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title: The grateful youth hastened across as soon as the moat was dry, but… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The grateful youth hastened across as soon as the moat was dry, but found it impossible to penetrate the thick walls and strong iron doors of the church. Who acts: moat, grateful youth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 89

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The grateful youth hastened across as soon as the moat was dry, but found it impossible to penetrate the thick walls and strong iron doors of the church.

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**Who acts:** moat, grateful youth · **What happens:** hasten, be, find, penetrate · **To what, where:** grateful youth, moat, thick walls · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moat, grateful youth), 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:pg5615:22:89
# text = The grateful youth hastened across as soon as the moat was dry, but found it impossible to penetrate the thick walls and strong iron doors of the church.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	across	across	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moat	moat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  | the grateful youth *not said here* |  |  |  | across, soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the moat |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | past | the grateful youth | moat |  |  |  | impossible *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **penetrate** | to-infinitive |  | the thick walls and strong iron doors of the church |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=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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