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title: The smith then had to go in at the window, just as he came out, and… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The smith then had to go in at the window, just as he came out, and went and laid himself all his length on the left side of the princess’s chest, close up to it, and there he lay stiff as a rock until the clock struck twelve. Who acts: smith, clock. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 90

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The smith then had to go in at the window, just as he came out, and went and laid himself all his length on the left side of the princess’s chest, close up to it, and there he lay stiff as a rock until the clock struck twelve.

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**Who acts:** smith, clock · **What happens:** have, go in, come out, go, lay, close up · **To what, where:** window, smith, left side, chest, twelve

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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 (smith, clock), 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:pg5615:7:90
# text = The smith then had to go in at the window, just as he came out, and went and laid himself all his length on the left side of the princess’s chest, close up to it, and there he lay stiff as a rock until the clock struck twelve.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	44	expl	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
45	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
53	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the smith |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go in** | to-infinitive | the smith *not said here* |  |  | the window |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
| 3 | **come out** | past | smith |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | the smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **lay** | past | the smith *not said here* | smith |  | the left side of the princess's chest |  | smith's length *obl:unmarked* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on side=Destination |
| 6 | **close up** | infinitive | the smith *not said here* |  | chest |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient |
| 7 | **lie** | past | smith |  |  | there |  | as a rock; stiff *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **strike** | past | the clock | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=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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