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title: It went all round the church, and when it finally caught sight of th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It went all round the church, and when it finally caught sight of the smith, up in the pulpit, it came rushing thither and mounted the steps. Who acts: Sentry. 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 18

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It went all round the church, and when it finally caught sight of the smith, up in the pulpit, it came rushing thither and mounted the steps.

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**Who acts:** Sentry · **What happens:** go, catch, come, rush, mount, sight · **To what, where:** church, sight, pulpit, steps, smith

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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 (Sentry), 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:pg5615:7:18
# text = It went all round the church, and when it finally caught sight of the smith, up in the pulpit, it came rushing thither and mounted the steps.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
13	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Sentry |  |  | the church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | Sentry | sight of the smith |  | the pulpit |  | finally *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Sentry |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rush** | gerund | Sentry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **mount** | past | Sentry *not said here* | the steps |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the smith |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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