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title: When night came he saw the castle before him all lighted up, and as… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When night came he saw the castle before him all lighted up, and as he imagined that the Princess must be in it, he made haste to get there too. Who acts: night, Prince, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 27

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When night came he saw the castle before him all lighted up, and as he imagined that the Princess must be in it, he made haste to get there too.

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**Who acts:** night, Prince, Princess · **What happens:** come, see, light up, imagine, be, haste · **To what, where:** castle, Prince

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, Prince, Princess), 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:pg540:36:27
# text = When night came he saw the castle before him all lighted up, and as he imagined that the Princess must be in it, he made haste to get there too.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	made	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	haste	haste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Prince | the castle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **light up** | participle · passive |  | Prince |  |  |  | all *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **imagine** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** | must | the Princess |  |  | castle |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **haste** | may | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **get** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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