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title: When he had lain quietly a short time, he heard something chewing ou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he had lain quietly a short time, he heard something chewing outside the barn door; then he once more stole to the door, which was slightly ajar, and behold, a horse was standing just outside it, which was much larger and fatter than the two others he had caught. Who acts: last, stole, horse, t
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 39

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When he had lain quietly a short time, he heard something chewing outside the barn door; then he once more stole to the door, which was slightly ajar, and behold, a horse was standing just outside it, which was much larger and fatter than the two others he had caught.

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**Who acts:** last, stole, horse, two others · **What happens:** lie, hear, chew, be, stand, catch · **To what, where:** something, stole, last

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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 (last, stole, horse, two others), 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:pg503:48:39
# text = When he had lain quietly a short time, he heard something chewing outside the barn door; then he once more stole to the door, which was slightly ajar, and behold, a horse was standing just outside it, which was much larger and fatter than the two others he had caught.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	obj	_	_
13	chewing	chew	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	22	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
23	stole	stole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	ajar	ajar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	_
40	just	just	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	47	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	fatter	fat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	conj	_	_
50	than	than	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
53	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past · perfect | last |  |  |  | time | quietly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | last | something |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **chew** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | outside the barn door | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | stole to the door |  |  |  |  | ajar, slightly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | a horse | stole |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | than the two others | tree rules |
| 8 | **catch** | past · perfect · passive | the two others *not said here* | last |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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