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title: Then our friend staggered into his own hut and called to his wife: ‘… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then our friend staggered into his own hut and called to his wife: ‘Ichou! how tired I am! Who acts: friend, Ichou. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 24

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Then our friend staggered into his own hut and called to his wife: ‘Ichou! how tired I am!

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**Who acts:** friend, Ichou · **What happens:** stagger, call, be · **To what, where:** own hut, wife · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Ichou), 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:pg5615:35:24
# text = Then our friend staggered into his own hut and called to his wife: ‘Ichou! how tired I am!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ichou	Ichou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stagger** | past | our friend |  |  | friend's own hut | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | friend's own hut *not said here* | friend's wife |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Ichou |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |

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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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