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title: He immediately started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand. — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He immediately started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand. Who acts: king, lancet. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Cham and the Dervise., sentence 7

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He immediately started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand.

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**Who acts:** king, lancet · **What happens:** start, let, fall · **To what, where:** hand

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Cham and the Dervise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, lancet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:6:7
# text = He immediately started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lancet	lancet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | king |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | the lancet |  |  | king's hand |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out hand=Location |

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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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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