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title: All the doors and posterns were locked, but he finally though of cre… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All the doors and posterns were locked, but he finally though of creeping up to a window, and opening that, and as the clock struck nine, he crept out there. Who acts: clock, remainder. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 73

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All the doors and posterns were locked, but he finally though of creeping up to a window, and opening that, and as the clock struck nine, he crept out there.

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**Who acts:** clock, remainder · **What happens:** lock, creep up, open, strike, creep out · **To what, where:** doors, window, that, nine

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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, remainder), 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:pg5615:7:73
# text = All the doors and posterns were locked, but he finally though of creeping up to a window, and opening that, and as the clock struck nine, he crept out there.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	posterns	postern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
11	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
12	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
29	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | past · passive |  | all doors and posterns |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **creep up** | gerund |  |  |  | a window |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to window=Destination |
| 3 | **open** | gerund |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | past | the clock | nine |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nine=Patient |
| 5 | **creep out** | past | remainder |  |  | there |  | finally *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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