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title: When they had eaten a great many pebbles they thought they had done… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they had eaten a great many pebbles they thought they had done enough for that day, and all went home together and curled themselves up to sleep. Who acts: nyamatsanes. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 5

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When they had eaten a great many pebbles they thought they had done enough for that day, and all went home together and curled themselves up to sleep.

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**Who acts:** nyamatsanes · **What happens:** eat, think, do, go, curl up, sleep · **To what, where:** great many pebbles, nyamatsanes · **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 (nyamatsanes), 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:pg5615:35:5
# text = When they had eaten a great many pebbles they thought they had done enough for that day, and all went home together and curled themselves up to sleep.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
14	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	home	home	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	curled	curl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* | a great many pebbles |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past · perfect | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  |  | day | enough *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | home, together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **curl up** | past |  | nyamatsanes *= nyamatsane* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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