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description: He then took hold of him, and however unwilling he was, Christian had to go with him right back to the same little door that he had crept out at. Who acts: man, 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 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 47

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He then took hold of him, and however unwilling he was, Christian had to go with him right back to the same little door that he had crept out at.

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**Who acts:** man, Christian · **What happens:** take, unwill, be, have, go, creep out · **To what, where:** hold, same little door, Christian

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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 (man, 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:pg5615:7:47
# text = He then took hold of him, and however unwilling he was, Christian had to go with him right back to the same little door that he had crept out at.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	crept	creep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | man | hold of Christian |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **unwill** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | Christian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | Christian *not said here* |  |  | the same little door |  | with man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **creep out** | past · perfect | Christian |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hold** |  |  | Christian |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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