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title: Night came on and he heard bogles move in the courtyard; so he looke… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Night came on and he heard bogles move in the courtyard; so he looked out o' the window, and the yard was full of them. Who acts: Night, he, bogles, yard. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 6

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Night came on and he heard bogles move in the courtyard; so he looked out o' the window, and the yard was full of them.

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**Who acts:** Night, he, bogles, yard · **What happens:** come on, hear, move, look out, be · **To what, where:** courtyard · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Night, he, bogles, yard), 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:pg14241:16:6
# text = Night came on and he heard bogles move in the courtyard; so he looked out o' the window, and the yard was full of them.
1	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	bogles	bogle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | Night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move** | present | bogles |  |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Trajectory |
| 4 | **look out** | past | he |  |  |  |  | of the window | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | the yard |  |  |  |  | of bogles *= bogle*; full *property* | tree rules |

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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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