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title: And as he sat thus his eyes refused to keep open any longer, and a d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he sat thus his eyes refused to keep open any longer, and a desire to sleep stole over him. Who acts: other, eyes. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 106

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And as he sat thus his eyes refused to keep open any longer, and a desire to sleep stole over him.

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**Who acts:** other, eyes · **What happens:** sit, refuse, not keep, sleep · **To what, where:** stole

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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 (other, eyes), 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:pg503:13:106
# text = And as he sat thus his eyes refused to keep open any longer, and a desire to sleep stole over him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	any	any	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	stole	stole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | other |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | other's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **keep** | to-infinitive | other's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long, open *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | other *not said here* | stole |  |  |  | over other | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stole=Theme |

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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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