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title: So the day passed in mirth and glee, but when eight o’clock came, Ch… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the day passed in mirth and glee, but when eight o’clock came, Christian was again shut up in the church, all alone. Who acts: eight o’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 41

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So the day passed in mirth and glee, but when eight o’clock came, Christian was again shut up in the church, all alone.

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**Who acts:** eight o’clock · **What happens:** pass, come, shut up · **To what, where:** mirth, Christian, church

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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 (eight o’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:pg5615:7:41
# text = So the day passed in mirth and glee, but when eight o’clock came, Christian was again shut up in the church, all alone.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
12	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  | mirth and glee | day | alone *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mirth=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | eight o’clock |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shut up** | past · passive |  | Christian |  | the church | again |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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