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title: So after she had eaten, and night was drawing near, she grew sleepy… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So after she had eaten, and night was drawing near, she grew sleepy after her journey, and thought she would like to go to bed. Who acts: door. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 20

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So after she had eaten, and night was drawing near, she grew sleepy after her journey, and thought she would like to go to bed.

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**Who acts:** door · **What happens:** eat, draw, grow, think, like, go · **To what, where:** bed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door), 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:pg503:4:20
# text = So after she had eaten, and night was drawing near, she grew sleepy after her journey, and thought she would like to go to bed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | past · progressive | door *not said here* |  |  |  | night | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | door |  |  |  | after door's journey | sleepy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **like** | would | door |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | door *not said here* |  |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **journey** |  | door |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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