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title: When they came in the morning to let the sentinel out, there was no… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they came in the morning to let the sentinel out, there was no one there, and it was impossible to discover which way he had gone if he had run away. Who acts: king, the, tuft. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 115

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When they came in the morning to let the sentinel out, there was no one there, and it was impossible to discover which way he had gone if he had run away.

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**Who acts:** king, the, tuft · **What happens:** come, let, sentinel out, be, discover, go · **To what, where:** the, way

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, the, tuft), 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:pg5615:6:115
# text = When they came in the morning to let the sentinel out, there was no one there, and it was impossible to discover which way he had gone if he had run away.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	obj	_	_
10	sentinel	sentinel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	csubj	_	_
25	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	26	det	_	_
26	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | king |  |  |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | the |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sentinel out** | infinitive | the *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **discover** | to-infinitive |  | which way |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 6 | **go** | past · perfect | tuft | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 7 | **run away** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | tuft |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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