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title: They came at last to the house where this candle was, not without an… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They came at last to the house where this candle was, not without an abundance of fear: for very often they lost sight of it, which happened every time they came into a bottom. Who acts: brothers, candle. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 59

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They came at last to the house where this candle was, not without an abundance of fear: for very often they lost sight of it, which happened every time they came into a bottom.

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**Who acts:** brothers, candle · **What happens:** come, not be, lose, happen, sight · **To what, where:** last, sight, time, bottom, candle

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, candle), 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:pg503:33:59
# text = They came at last to the house where this candle was, not without an abundance of fear: for very often they lost sight of it, which happened every time they came into a bottom.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	abundance	abundance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* |  |  | last |  | to the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | this candle |  |  |  |  | without a abundance; of fear | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | past | brothers *= brother* | sight of candle |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality |
| 4 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | brothers *= brother* | every time *not said here* |  | a bottom |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | candle |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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