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title: When he got there he went into the barn and lay down, but in about a… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he got there he went into the barn and lay down, but in about an hour’s time the rumbling and creaking began, and it was frightful to hear it. Who acts: Cinderlad, rumbling, it. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 12

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When he got there he went into the barn and lay down, but in about an hour’s time the rumbling and creaking began, and it was frightful to hear it.

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**Who acts:** Cinderlad, rumbling, it · **What happens:** get, go, lay down, creak, begin, be · **To what, where:** barn

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cinderlad, rumbling, it), 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:pg503:48:12
# text = When he got there he went into the barn and lay down, but in about an hour’s time the rumbling and creaking began, and it was frightful to hear it.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	creaking	creak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	csubj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Cinderlad |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **go** | past | Cinderlad |  |  | the barn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into barn=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | Cinderlad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **creak** | gerund | the rumbling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | the rumbling |  |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | frightful *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | barn |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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