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title: So when evening came he went to the barn, and lay down to sleep, but… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So when evening came he went to the barn, and lay down to sleep, but when night was drawing near there was such a rumbling and such an earthquake that the walls and roof shook again, and the lad jumped up and took to his heels as fast as he could, and never even looked back, and the barn remained em
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 5

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So when evening came he went to the barn, and lay down to sleep, but when night was drawing near there was such a rumbling and such an earthquake that the walls and roof shook again, and the lad jumped up and took to his heels as fast as he could, and never even looked back, and the barn remained empty that year just as it had been for the last two.

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**Who acts:** evening, man, rumbling, walls, lad, barn · **What happens:** come, go, lay down, sleep, draw, be · **To what, where:** barn, earthquake

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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 (evening, man, rumbling, walls), 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:pg503:48:5
# text = So when evening came he went to the barn, and lay down to sleep, but when night was drawing near there was such a rumbling and such an earthquake that the walls and roof shook again, and the lad jumped up and took to his heels as fast as he could, and never even looked back, and the barn remained empty that year just as it had been for the last two.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	4	parataxis	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
22	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	24	expl	_	_
24	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	27	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rumbling	rumbling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	earthquake	earthquake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
38	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
44	up	up	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	as	as	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
57	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
58	even	even	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
60	back	back	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nsubj	_	_
65	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
66	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
67	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	68	det	_	_
68	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl:unmarked	_	_
69	just	just	ADV	RB	_	77	advmod	_	_
70	as	as	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
71	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	77	nsubj	_	_
72	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	77	aux	_	_
73	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	77	cop	_	_
74	for	for	ADP	IN	_	77	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	77	det	_	_
76	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	77	amod	_	_
77	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | man |  |  | the barn |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to barn=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | evening *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | evening *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **draw** | past · progressive | evening *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | past | such rumbling and such earthquake |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **shake** | past | the walls and roof | such earthquake |  |  | again |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 8 | **jump up** | past | the lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **take** | past | the lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to man's heels *result*; fast *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |
| 10 | **not** **look back** | past | evening *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 11 | **remain** | past | the barn |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 12 | **is** | past · perfect | barn |  |  |  |  | as the last two | tree rules |

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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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