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title: Once, when they had slept all night in the wood and had been wakened… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once, when they had slept all night in the wood and had been wakened by the morning sun, they perceived a beautiful child in a shining white robe sitting close to their resting-place. Who acts: roses, morning sun, shining white robe. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 7

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Once, when they had slept all night in the wood and had been wakened by the morning sun, they perceived a beautiful child in a shining white robe sitting close to their resting-place.

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**Who acts:** roses, morning sun, shining white robe · **What happens:** sleep, waken, perceive, shine, sit · **To what, where:** wood, beautiful child, shining white robe

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses, morning sun, shining white robe), 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:pg503:36:7
# text = Once, when they had slept all night in the wood and had been wakened by the morning sun, they perceived a beautiful child in a shining white robe sitting close to their resting-place.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	wakened	waken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
29	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
31	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
35	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past · perfect | roses *= rose* |  |  | the wood | night | once *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
| 2 | **waken** | past · perfect · passive | the morning sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **perceive** | past | roses *= rose* | a beautiful child |  | a shining white robe |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | a shining white robe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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