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title: But when she didn't shine, out came the Things that dwelt in the dar… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she didn't shine, out came the Things that dwelt in the darkness and went about seeking to do evil and harm; Bogles and Crawling Horrors, all came out when the Moon didn't shine. Who acts: goodwife, Things, Moon. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 54

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But when she didn't shine, out came the Things that dwelt in the darkness and went about seeking to do evil and harm; Bogles and Crawling Horrors, all came out when the Moon didn't shine.

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**Who acts:** goodwife, Things, Moon · **What happens:** not shine, come, dwell, go, seek, do · **To what, where:** Things, darkness, evil

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goodwife, Things, Moon), 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:pg14241:24:54
# text = But when she didn't shine, out came the Things that dwelt in the darkness and went about seeking to do evil and harm; Bogles and Crawling Horrors, all came out when the Moon didn't shine.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Bogles	bogle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	Crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	Horrors	horror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	advmod	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	40	mark	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
40	shine	shine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shine** | past · do-support | goodwife |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | the Things |  |  |  | Bogles and Crawling Horrors *obl*; out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thing=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | the Things |  |  | the darkness |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in darkness=Location |
| 4 | **go** | past | the Things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | gerund | the Things *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Things *not said here* | evil and harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
| 7 | **crawl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **come out** | past |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **not** **shine** | past · do-support | the Moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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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