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title: In spite of his weariness the howling of the wolves kept him awake,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In spite of his weariness the howling of the wolves kept him awake, and even when at last the day broke he was not much better off, for the falling snow had covered up every path, and he did not know which way to turn. Who acts: howling, merchant, wolves. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 31

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In spite of his weariness the howling of the wolves kept him awake, and even when at last the day broke he was not much better off, for the falling snow had covered up every path, and he did not know which way to turn.

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**Who acts:** howling, merchant, wolves · **What happens:** keep, break, be, fall, cover up, not know · **To what, where:** merchant, spite, falling snow, way, weariness

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (howling, merchant, wolves), 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:pg503:14:31
# text = In spite of his weariness the howling of the wolves kept him awake, and even when at last the day broke he was not much better off, for the falling snow had covered up every path, and he did not know which way to turn.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	ccomp	_	_
28	off	off	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	amod	_	_
33	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
36	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
42	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
45	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	46	det	_	_
46	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the howling of the wolves | merchant |  | spite of merchant's weariness |  | awake *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in spite=Location |
| 2 | **break** | past | the howling of the wolves *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | merchant |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **cover up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the falling snow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | merchant | which way |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 7 | **turn** | to-infinitive | merchant *not said here* | which way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **spite** |  |  | merchant's weariness |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **howl** |  | the wolves |  |  |  |  |  | nom howling «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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