--- title: Down in the south, where the sun shines so hotly that everything and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Down in the south, where the sun shines so hotly that everything and everybody sleeps all day, and even the great forests seem silent, except early in the morning and late in the evening—down in this country there once lived a young man and a maiden. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, everything, great forests, country), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:10:41 # text = Down in the south, where the sun shines so hotly that everything and everybody sleeps all day, and even the great forests seem silent, except early in the morning and late in the evening—down in this country there once lived a young man and a maiden. 1 Down down ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 south south NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 shines shine VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 hotly hotly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 conj _ _ 16 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 forests forest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 except except ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 — - PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 down down ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 44 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 45 advmod _ _ 45 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 45 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | present | the sun | | | | | hotly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | present | everything | | | | day | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | present | the great forests | | | | morning | silent *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **live** | past | this country | a young man and a maiden | | | | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | 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. **Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/42/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/10/)