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title: Then the Don went to an inn, where he hired two rooms, and, standing… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Don went to an inn, where he hired two rooms, and, standing in one of them, said to his purse, ‘ Dear purse, fill this room with gold;’ and when the eight days were up it was so full you could not have put in another sovereign. Who acts: Don, eight days, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy B
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 37

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Then the Don went to an inn, where he hired two rooms, and, standing in one of them, said to his purse, ‘ Dear purse, fill this room with gold;’ and when the eight days were up it was so full you could not have put in another sovereign.

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**Who acts:** Don, eight days, you · **What happens:** go, hire, stand, say, fill, be · **To what, where:** inn, two rooms, purse, room, sovereign · **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 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, eight days, you), 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:pg5615:39:37
# text = Then the Don went to an inn, where he hired two rooms, and, standing in one of them, said to his purse, ‘ Dear purse, fill this room with gold;’ and when the eight days were up it was so full you could not have put in another sovereign.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	ccomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	fill	fill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
40	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	49	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
45	up	up	ADP	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux	_	_
54	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	conj	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	57	det	_	_
57	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the Don |  |  | a inn | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **hire** | past | Don | two rooms |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | in one of rooms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Don *not said here* |  | Don's purse and Dear purse |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to purse=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fill** | infinitive |  | this room |  |  |  | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent room=Patient with gold=Instrument |
| 6 | **is** | past | the eight days |  |  |  |  | full *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **put** | could · perfect | you |  |  | another sovereign |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sovereign=Destination |

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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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