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title: When they got there, the little man said to him, ‘Go in front of the… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they got there, the little man said to him, ‘Go in front of the altar now, and take in your hand the book that is lying there. Who acts: heels, little man, book. 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
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 48

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When they got there, the little man said to him, ‘Go in front of the altar now, and take in your hand the book that is lying there.

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**Who acts:** heels, little man, book · **What happens:** get, say, go, take in, lie · **To what, where:** Christian, front, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heels, little man, book), 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:pg5615:7:48
# text = When they got there, the little man said to him, ‘Go in front of the altar now, and take in your hand the book that is lying there.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | heels *= heel* |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the little man |  | Christian |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | front of the altar | now |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 4 | **take in** | infinitive |  | your hand |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hand=Theme book=Destination |
| 5 | **lie** | present · progressive | the book |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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