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title: But it could not get up the whole way, and for all that it stretched… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it could not get up the whole way, and for all that it stretched and strained, it could not touch Christian, who meanwhile stood and trembled up in the pulpit. Who acts: Sentry, Christian. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree a
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 19

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But it could not get up the whole way, and for all that it stretched and strained, it could not touch Christian, who meanwhile stood and trembled up in the pulpit.

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**Who acts:** Sentry, Christian · **What happens:** not get up, stretch, strain, not touch, stand, tremble up · **To what, where:** whole way, Christian, pulpit

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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, Christian), 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:pg5615:7:19
# text = But it could not get up the whole way, and for all that it stretched and strained, it could not touch Christian, who meanwhile stood and trembled up in the pulpit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strained	strain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get up** | could | Sentry | the whole way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | Sentry |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **strain** | past | Sentry *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **touch** | could | Sentry | Christian |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme christian=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **stand** | past | Christian |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tremble up** | past | Christian *not said here* |  |  | the pulpit |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pulpit=Location |

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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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