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title: There was no moon, and it was the night of Hallowe’en, and everyone… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no moon, and it was the night of Hallowe’en, and everyone was burning nuts and catching apples in a tub of water with their hands tied, and playing all sorts of other games, till the Shifty Lad grew quite tired of waiting for them to get to bed. Who acts: moon, everyone, Shifty Lad, Lad. A
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 110

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There was no moon, and it was the night of Hallowe’en, and everyone was burning nuts and catching apples in a tub of water with their hands tied, and playing all sorts of other games, till the Shifty Lad grew quite tired of waiting for them to get to bed.

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**Who acts:** moon, everyone, Shifty Lad, Lad · **What happens:** be, burn, catch, tie, play, grow · **To what, where:** night, nuts, apples, tub, hands, sorts

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, everyone, Shifty Lad, Lad), 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:pg3454:1:110
# text = There was no moon, and it was the night of Hallowe’en, and everyone was burning nuts and catching apples in a tub of water with their hands tied, and playing all sorts of other games, till the Shifty Lad grew quite tired of waiting for them to get to bed.
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	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Hallowe’en	Hallowe'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
21	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
30	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
45	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
47	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
49	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	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 moon |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | moon | the night |  |  |  | of Hallowe’en | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | past · progressive | everyone | nuts |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | gerund | everyone *not said here* | apples |  | a tub of water |  | with apples's hands | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 5 | **tie** | participle |  | apples's hands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **play** | gerund |  | all sorts of other games |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
| 7 | **grow** | past | the Shifty Lad |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **wait** | gerund | the Shifty Lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **get** | to-infinitive | Lad |  |  |  |  | to bed *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result |
| 10 | **sort** |  |  | other games |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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