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title: But in the night soft music was heard stealing close towards the hou… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the night soft music was heard stealing close towards the house, and every man slept, and the mother slept also. Who acts: man, mother. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 101

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But in the night soft music was heard stealing close towards the house, and every man slept, and the mother slept also.

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**Who acts:** man, mother · **What happens:** hear, steal, sleep · **To what, where:** night soft music

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, mother), 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:pg3454:36:101
# text = But in the night soft music was heard stealing close towards the house, and every man slept, and the mother slept also.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	stealing	steal	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  |  |  | the night soft music |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **steal** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | towards the house; close *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | every man |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep** | past | the mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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