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title: When he got tired of going through the world singing this the little… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he got tired of going through the world singing this the little hare went back to his friends and entered the service of Big Lion. Who acts: pii, little hare. 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 c
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 87

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When he got tired of going through the world singing this the little hare went back to his friends and entered the service of Big Lion.

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**Who acts:** pii, little hare · **What happens:** get, go, sing, go back, enter, service · **To what, where:** world, this, service, Big Lion

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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 (pii, little hare), 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:pg5615:35:87
# text = When he got tired of going through the world singing this the little hare went back to his friends and entered the service of Big Lion.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	csubj	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Big	Big	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | pii |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | pii *not said here* |  |  | the world |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through world=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location this=Theme |
| 4 | **go back** | past | the little hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **enter** | past | the little hare *not said here* | the service of Big Lion |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Destination |
| 6 | **service** |  |  | Big Lion |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: of=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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