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title: But when he had thus sent the two of them to their final rest, and w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 101

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But when he had thus sent the two of them to their final rest, and was again about to sit down at the fire, out of every nook and corner came forth black cats and black dogs with fiery chains in such swarms that he couldn’t possibly get away from them.

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**Who acts:** friend, nook · **What happens:** send, be, come, not get away · **To what, where:** two, final rest, fire, black cats, such swarms

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, nook), 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:pg503:13:101
# text = But when he had thus sent the two of them to their final rest, and was again about to sit down at the fire, out of every nook and corner came forth black cats and black dogs with fiery chains in such swarms that he couldn’t possibly get away from them.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	nook	nook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
34	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
48	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
50	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	acl	_	_
52	away	away	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	from	from	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect | friend | the two of cards |  | cards's final rest |  | thus *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent two=Theme to rest=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | friend *not said here* |  |  | the fire |  | about, sit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | every nook and corner | black cats and black dogs with fiery chains in such swarms |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cat=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **get away** | could | friend | such swarms *not said here* |  |  |  | away, possibly *property* | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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