--- title: He went to the barn and lay down to sleep, as his brother had done;… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went to the barn and lay down to sleep, as his brother had done; but when night was drawing near there was a great rumbling, and then an earthquake, which was even worse than that on the former St. John’s night, and when the youth heard it he was terrified, and went off, running as if for a wager --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/) / 8 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 8 He went to the barn and lay down to sleep, as his brother had done; but when night was drawing near there was a great rumbling, and then an earthquake, which was even worse than that on the former St. John’s night, and when the youth heard it he was terrified, and went off, running as if for a wager. **Who acts:** man, brother, great rumbling, earthquake, youth · **What happens:** go, lay down, sleep, do, draw, be · **To what, where:** barn · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (man, brother, great rumbling, earthquake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:48:8 # text = He went to the barn and lay down to sleep, as his brother had done; but when night was drawing near there was a great rumbling, and then an earthquake, which was even worse than that on the former St. John’s night, and when the youth heard it he was terrified, and went off, running as if for a wager. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 barn barn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 8 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 23 near near ADP IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 rumbling rumbling NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 33 advmod _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 earthquake earthquake NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 even even ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 33 acl:relcl _ _ 39 than than ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 obl _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 former former ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:desc _ _ 45 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 50 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 53 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 advcl _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 cop _ _ 57 terrified terrified ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 61 off off ADP RP _ 60 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 63 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 60 advcl _ _ 64 as as ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 65 if if SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 66 for for ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 wager wager NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | man | | | the barn | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to barn=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **lay down** | infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **do** | past · perfect | man's brother | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **draw** | past · progressive | man *not said here* | | | | night | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **be** | past | a great rumbling | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | past | a earthquake | | | | night | than a earthquake; bad *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **hear** | past | the youth | barn | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 9 | **is** | past | man | | | | | terrified *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **go off** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **run** | gerund | | | | | | as a wager | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/9/) - ↑ back to [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/)