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title: So she took the candle, and hid it in her breast, and when evening d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she took the candle, and hid it in her breast, and when evening drew near the White Bear came to fetch her away. Who acts: mother. 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 46

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So she took the candle, and hid it in her breast, and when evening drew near the White Bear came to fetch her away.

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** take, hide, draw, come, fetch away · **To what, where:** candle, drop, breast, White Bear, mother

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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 (mother), 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:pg503:4:46
# text = So she took the candle, and hid it in her breast, and when evening drew near the White Bear came to fetch her away.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | mother | the candle |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | past | mother *not said here* | drop |  | mother's breast |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in breast=Location |
| 3 | **draw** | past |  |  |  | the White Bear | evening |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fetch away** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* | mother |  |  |  | away *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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