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title: Every time that Kay tried to unfasten his sledge the driver nodded a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every time that Kay tried to unfasten his sledge the driver nodded again, and Kay sat still once more. Who acts: Kay, driver. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 105

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Every time that Kay tried to unfasten his sledge the driver nodded again, and Kay sat still once more.

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**Who acts:** Kay, driver · **What happens:** try, unfasten, nod, sit · **To what, where:** sledge

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, driver), 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:pg5615:8:105
# text = Every time that Kay tried to unfasten his sledge the driver nodded again, and Kay sat still once more.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	unfasten	unfasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **try** | past | Kay |  |  |  | time |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **unfasten** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kay *not said here* | driver's sledge |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **nod** | past | the driver |  |  |  | again |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | past | Kay |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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