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title: Christian made haste to get up into the pulpit, and stood there, wit… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Christian made haste to get up into the pulpit, and stood there, without noticing anything, until the clock struck twelve. Who acts: Christian, clock. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 13

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Christian made haste to get up into the pulpit, and stood there, without noticing anything, until the clock struck twelve.

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**Who acts:** Christian, clock · **What happens:** make, get up, stand, notice, strike · **To what, where:** haste, pulpit, anything, twelve

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christian, clock), 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:pg5615:7:13
# text = Christian made haste to get up into the pulpit, and stood there, without noticing anything, until the clock struck twelve.
1	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Christian | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |
| 2 | **get up** | to-infinitive | Christian *not said here* |  |  | the pulpit |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into pulpit=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **notice** | gerund |  | anything |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 5 | **strike** | past | the clock | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=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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