--- title: ‘It is almost night,’ he thought; ‘I will make a fire and rest,’ and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘It is almost night,’ he thought; ‘I will make a fire and rest,’ and thus he did, and when the flames blazed up, the hoary hawk of the grey rock flew on to a bough above him. Who acts: cliff, king, I, flames. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cliff, king, I, flames), 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:pg3454:9:80 # text = ‘It is almost night,’ he thought; ‘I will make a fire and rest,’ and thus he did, and when the flames blazed up, the hoary hawk of the grey rock flew on to a bough above him. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 almost almost ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 thus thus ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 flames flame NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 blazed blaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 hoary hoary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 hawk hawk NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 40 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 41 on on ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 bough bough NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 above above ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | cliff | night | | | | almost *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **make** | future | I | a fire and rest | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | | 4 | **do** | past | king | | | | | thus *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **blaze up** | past | the flames | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fly on** | past | the hoary hawk of the grey rock | | | | | to a bough above king *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to bough=Result | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/81/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/)