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title: When all was quiet in the church, the smith lay down before the alta… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When all was quiet in the church, the smith lay down before the altar and slept calmly till the following morning, when the colonel came to fetch him. Who acts: all, smith, colonel. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 62

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When all was quiet in the church, the smith lay down before the altar and slept calmly till the following morning, when the colonel came to fetch him.

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**Who acts:** all, smith, colonel · **What happens:** be, lie down, sleep, follow, come, fetch · **To what, where:** church, altar, colonel

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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 (all, smith, colonel), 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:pg5615:7:62
# text = When all was quiet in the church, the smith lay down before the altar and slept calmly till the following morning, when the colonel came to fetch him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	till	till	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	colonel	colonel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all |  |  | the church |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | the smith |  |  | the altar |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before altar=Location |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | the smith *not said here* |  |  |  | morning | calmly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | the colonel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fetch** | to-infinitive | the colonel *not said here* | colonel |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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