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title: So it had gone on for something like a whole year; every night a sen… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 121

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So it had gone on for something like a whole year; every night a sentinel had been placed beside the chest, either by compulsion or of his own free will, but not a single one of the sentinels was to be seen, either on the following day or any time thereafter.

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**Who acts:** payment · **What happens:** go on, place, see, follow · **To what, where:** night, chest, single one

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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 (payment), 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:pg5615:6:121
# text = So it had gone on for something like a whole year; every night a sentinel had been placed beside the chest, either by compulsion or of his own free will, but not a single one of the sentinels was to be seen, either on the following day or any time thereafter.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc:preconj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	compulsion	compulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc:preconj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	amod	_	_
51	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
54	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	_
55	thereafter	thereafter	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past · perfect | payment |  |  |  |  | for something | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **place** | past · perfect · passive |  | every night |  | the chest either compulsion |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beside chest=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  | a single one of the sentinels |  |  | day | thereafter *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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