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title: The man then laid hold of him, and said, ‘You must remain at your po… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The man then laid hold of him, and said, ‘You must remain at your post, as you have promised,’ and whether he liked it or not, Christian had just to go back with him the whole way to the church. Who acts: man, You, remainder, Christian. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fa
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 81

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The man then laid hold of him, and said, ‘You must remain at your post, as you have promised,’ and whether he liked it or not, Christian had just to go back with him the whole way to the church.

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**Who acts:** man, You, remainder, Christian · **What happens:** lay, hold, say, remain, promise, like · **To what, where:** post, whole way · **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 (man, You, remainder, 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:pg5615:7:81
# text = The man then laid hold of him, and said, ‘You must remain at your post, as you have promised,’ and whether he liked it or not, Christian had just to go back with him the whole way to the church.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
39	back	back	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | the man |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of remainder | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **remain** | must | You |  |  | your post |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at post=Location |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **like** | past | remainder | post |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | Christian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **go back** | to-infinitive | Christian *not said here* | the whole way to the church |  |  |  | with remainder | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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