--- title: When night came, and she was tired, she looked about for some place… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When night came, and she was tired, she looked about for some place to rest, and glad she was to see a little house full of light straight in front of her, and she hurried towards it as fast as she could. Who acts: night, wife. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/114/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/) / 114 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 114 When night came, and she was tired, she looked about for some place to rest, and glad she was to see a little house full of light straight in front of her, and she hurried towards it as fast as she could. **Who acts:** night, wife · **What happens:** come, be, look, rest, see, hurry · **To what, where:** place, little house, front 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 (night, wife), 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:pg3454:36:114 # text = When night came, and she was tired, she looked about for some place to rest, and glad she was to see a little house full of light straight in front of her, and she hurried towards it as fast as she could. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 advcl _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 40 towards towards ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ _ 42 as as ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 advmod _ _ 44 as as SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | wife | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** | past | wife | some place | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Attribute | | 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | some place *not said here* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | past | wife | a little house | | front of Crow | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | | 6 | **hurry** | past | wife | | | front | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/115/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/)