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title: When everything was complete he looked out of the door, and saw the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When everything was complete he looked out of the door, and saw the old man coming from the forest carrying a large bundle of wood. Who acts: everything, peasant, old man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 25

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When everything was complete he looked out of the door, and saw the old man coming from the forest carrying a large bundle of wood.

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**Who acts:** everything, peasant, old man · **What happens:** be, look out, see, come, carry · **To what, where:** door, old man, forest, large bundle

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, peasant, old man), 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:pg5615:4:25
# text = When everything was complete he looked out of the door, and saw the old man coming from the forest carrying a large bundle of wood.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everything |  |  |  |  | complete *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look out** | past | peasant | the door |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | everything *not said here* | the old man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | the old man *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | the old man *not said here* | a large bundle of wood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |

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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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