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title: That being the third night, and the damosel being between hope and d… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: That being the third night, and the damosel being between hope and despair, she brak her plum, and it held far the richest jewelry of the three. Who acts: That, damosel, plum. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 74

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That being the third night, and the damosel being between hope and despair, she brak her plum, and it held far the richest jewelry of the three.

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**Who acts:** That, damosel, plum · **What happens:** be, brak, hold · **To what, where:** third night, plum, richest jewelry

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, damosel, plum), 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:pg503:55:74
# text = That being the third night, and the damosel being between hope and despair, she brak her plum, and it held far the richest jewelry of the three.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	damosel	damosel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	brak	brak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	amod	_	_
27	jewelry	jewelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | That | the third night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the damosel |  |  |  |  | between hope and despair | tree rules |
| 3 | **brak** | past | damosel | damosel's plum |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | past | plum | the richest jewelry of the three |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewelry=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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