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title: So once--it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn, and wild weath… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So once--it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn, and wild weather outside, terribly dark, and raining so heavily and blowing so hard that the walls of the cottage shook again--they were all sitting together by the fireside, each of them busy with something or other, when suddenly some one rappe
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# The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 3

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So once--it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn, and wild weather outside, terribly dark, and raining so heavily and blowing so hard that the walls of the cottage shook again--they were all sitting together by the fireside, each of them busy with something or other, when suddenly some one rapped three times against the window-pane.

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**Who acts:** beauty, walls, one · **What happens:** be, rain, blow, shake, sit, rap · **To what, where:** window pane

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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 (beauty, walls, one), 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:pg503:4:3
# text = So once--it was late on a Thursday evening in autumn, and wild weather outside, terribly dark, and raining so heavily and blowing so hard that the walls of the cottage shook again--they were all sitting together by the fireside, each of them busy with something or other, when suddenly some one rapped three times against the window-pane.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Thursday	Thursday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	parataxis	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	all	all	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
43	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nmod	_	_
51	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	51	obl	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
57	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	61	advmod	_	_
58	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
59	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	60	det	_	_
60	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	rapped	rap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
62	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	63	nummod	_	_
63	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl:unmarked	_	_
64	against	against	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | beauty |  |  |  | evening | late, once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shake** | past | the walls of the cottage |  |  |  | again |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sit** | past · progressive | walls *= wall* |  |  |  |  | by the fireside; all, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fireside=Location |
| 6 | **rap** | past | some one |  |  | the window pane | time | suddenly *property* | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against pane=Location |

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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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