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title: My father has set no sentry in, War and Pest will now begin. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: My father has set no sentry in, War and Pest will now begin. Who acts: father, War. 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 clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 94

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My father has set no sentry in, War and Pest will now begin.

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**Who acts:** father, War · **What happens:** set, begin · **To what, where:** sentry

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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 (father, War), 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:pg5615:7:94
# text = My father has set no sentry in, War and Pest will now begin.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Pest	Pest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | present · perfect | My father | no sentry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **begin** | future | War and Pest |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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