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title: But she did not care to sit up late, when the fire burnt low, and no… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she did not care to sit up late, when the fire burnt low, and no one knew what might be about; so, when they had had their supper she would make up a good fire and go off to bed, so that if anything terrible _did_ happen, she could always hide her head under the bed-clothes. Who acts: house, fir
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 43

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But she did not care to sit up late, when the fire burnt low, and no one knew what might be about; so, when they had had their supper she would make up a good fire and go off to bed, so that if anything terrible \_did\_ happen, she could always hide her head under the bed-clothes.

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**Who acts:** house, fire, one, lights · **What happens:** not care, sit up, burnt, know, be, have · **To what, where:** supper, good fire, head, bed clothes

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, fire, one, lights), 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:pg14241:16:43
# text = But she did not care to sit up late, when the fire burnt low, and no one knew what might be about; so, when they had had their supper she would make up a good fire and go off to bed, so that if anything terrible _did_ happen, she could always hide her head under the bed-clothes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
15	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	obj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	csubj	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
43	off	off	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
47	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	53	nsubj	_	_
51	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	53	punct	_	_
55	happen	happen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	60	advmod	_	_
60	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	_
63	under	under	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
65	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | house |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit up** | to-infinitive | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **burnt** | participle | the fire |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | might |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past · perfect | lights *= light* | lights's supper |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient |
| 7 | **make up** | would | house | a good fire |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot |
| 8 | **go off** | infinitive | house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to bed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **happen** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **hide** | could | house | house's head |  | the bed clothes |  | always *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient under clothes=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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