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title: ‘Just as I was falling asleep last night, I heard a horse’s tramp on… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Just as I was falling asleep last night, I heard a horse’s tramp on the grass and a knock at the door, and there, when I came out, was a fine-looking dark man, mounted on a black horse, and he told me to get ready in all haste, for a lady was in great want of me. Who acts: I, infant, lady. A senten
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 94

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‘Just as I was falling asleep last night, I heard a horse’s tramp on the grass and a knock at the door, and there, when I came out, was a fine-looking dark man, mounted on a black horse, and he told me to get ready in all haste, for a lady was in great want of me.

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**Who acts:** I, infant, lady · **What happens:** fall, hear, come out, look, be, mount · **To what, where:** tramp, grass, looking dark man, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, infant, lady), 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:pg3454:6:94
# text = ‘Just as I was falling asleep last night, I heard a horse’s tramp on the grass and a knock at the door, and there, when I came out, was a fine-looking dark man, mounted on a black horse, and he told me to get ready in all haste, for a lady was in great want of me.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	32	advmod	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
37	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	amod	_	_
40	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
52	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
55	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
56	in	in	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	58	det	_	_
58	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
60	for	for	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	nsubj	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	cop	_	_
64	in	in	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	66	amod	_	_
66	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	ccomp	_	_
67	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · progressive | I |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | I | a horse's tramp |  | the grass and a knock at the door |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come out** | past | I |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | a looking dark man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mount** | participle |  | a looking dark man *not said here* |  |  |  | on a black horse | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horse=Destination |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | infant |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | infant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** | past | a lady |  |  |  |  | for great want; of me | tree rules |

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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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