--- title: That night, when everyone in the hut was asleep, Thakane rose, and c… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: That night, when everyone in the hut was asleep, Thakane rose, and carrying her baby on her back, went down to a place where the river spread itself out into a large lake, with tall willows all round the bank. Who acts: everyone, Thakane, river. 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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 (everyone, Thakane, river), 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:pg3282:16:5 # text = That night, when everyone in the hut was asleep, Thakane rose, and carrying her baby on her back, went down to a place where the river spread itself out into a large lake, with tall willows all round the bank. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 5 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Thakane Thakane PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 23 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 31 obj _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 willows willow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 42 all all ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 43 round round ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | everyone | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rise** | past | Thakane | | | | night | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | gerund | | Thakane's baby | | Thakane's back | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | | 4 | **go down** | past | Thakane *not said here* | | | | | to a place; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **spread out** | past | the river | baby | | a large lake with tall willows round the bank | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme into lake=Destination | 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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/6/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/)