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title: As soon as it was light they searched every corner of the house agai… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as it was light they searched every corner of the house again, and examined every nail in the wall and every beam; but, luckily, Master Peter was not hanging from any of them. Who acts: weeping, things, Master Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Bo
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 79

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As soon as it was light they searched every corner of the house again, and examined every nail in the wall and every beam; but, luckily, Master Peter was not hanging from any of them.

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**Who acts:** weeping, things, Master Peter · **What happens:** be, search, examine, not hang · **To what, where:** corner, nail, wall, any

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weeping, things, Master Peter), 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:pg2435:16:79
# text = As soon as it was light they searched every corner of the house again, and examined every nail in the wall and every beam; but, luckily, Master Peter was not hanging from any of them.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | weeping |  |  |  |  | light *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **search** | past | things *= thing* | every corner of the house |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Location |
| 3 | **examine** | past | things *= thing* *not said here* | every nail |  | the wall and every beam |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **hang** | past · progressive | Master Peter |  |  | any |  | luckily *property* | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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