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title: He shut the forge door at nightfall, and the neighbours all gathered… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He shut the forge door at nightfall, and the neighbours all gathered in the yard, and they heard him hammering, hammering, hammering, from that to daybreak; and every now and then he’d throw out through the window bits of gold, silver, and copper; and the idlers scrambled for them, and cursed one an
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 79

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He shut the forge door at nightfall, and the neighbours all gathered in the yard, and they heard him hammering, hammering, hammering, from that to daybreak; and every now and then he’d throw out through the window bits of gold, silver, and copper; and the idlers scrambled for them, and cursed one another, and prayed for the good luck of the workman.

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**Who acts:** smith, neighbours, idlers · **What happens:** shut, gather, hear, hammer, have, throw out · **To what, where:** forge door, nightfall, smith, that, copper, window bits

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, neighbours, idlers), 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:pg3454:11:79
# text = He shut the forge door at nightfall, and the neighbours all gathered in the yard, and they heard him hammering, hammering, hammering, from that to daybreak; and every now and then he’d throw out through the window bits of gold, silver, and copper; and the idlers scrambled for them, and cursed one another, and prayed for the good luck of the workman.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	forge	forge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
40	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	ccomp	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	idlers	idler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj	_	_
57	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	cursed	curse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	conj	_	_
63	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	obj	_	_
64	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	63	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
68	for	for	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
70	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl	_	_
72	of	of	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	71	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | past | smith | the forge door |  | nightfall |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **gather** | past | the neighbours |  |  |  |  | in the yard; all *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | neighbours *= neighbour* | smith |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hammer** | gerund | smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hammer** | gerund | smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hammer** | gerund | smith *not said here* |  |  | that |  | to daybreak | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | smith |  |  |  | now; then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **throw out** | infinitive | smith *not said here* | copper |  | the window bits of gold and silver |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through bit=Destination |
| 9 | **scramble** | past | the idlers |  |  |  |  | for neighbours *= neighbour* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **curse** | participle | the idlers *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 11 | **pray** | past | smith *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the good luck of the workman | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for luck=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 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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