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title: There was no night in that country, so, instead of going to bed very… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no night in that country, so, instead of going to bed very early, as he would have done in his own hut, the young man took another walk. Who acts: night, man, young man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 32

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There was no night in that country, so, instead of going to bed very early, as he would have done in his own hut, the young man took another walk.

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**Who acts:** night, man, young man · **What happens:** be, go, do, take · **To what, where:** country, bed, own hut, walk

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, man, young man), 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:pg3027:35:32
# text = There was no night in that country, so, instead of going to bed very early, as he would have done in his own hut, the young man took another walk.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	13	mark	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
23	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
33	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no night |  |  | that country; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | no night *not said here* | bed |  |  |  | early *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | would · perfect | man |  |  | man's own hut |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | the young man | another walk |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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