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title: When the clock struck one, the appearance had to go back into the ch… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the clock struck one, the appearance had to go back into the chest again, and Christian heard the lid slam after it. Who acts: clock, appearance, Christian. 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 clau
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 20

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When the clock struck one, the appearance had to go back into the chest again, and Christian heard the lid slam after it.

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**Who acts:** clock, appearance, Christian · **What happens:** strike, have, go back, hear · **To what, where:** one, chest, lid slam

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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 (clock, appearance, 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:pg5615:7:20
# text = When the clock struck one, the appearance had to go back into the chest again, and Christian heard the lid slam after it.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	slam	slam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the clock | one |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | the appearance |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive | the appearance *not said here* |  |  | the chest | again |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Christian | the lid slam |  |  | after appearance |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer slam=Stimulus |

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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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