--- title: No, as soon as the light shone in the evening from the attic it seem… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No, as soon as the light shone in the evening from the attic it seemed to him as though its beams were strong ropes dragging him up, and he had to go and peep through the key-hole. Who acts: it, beams, strong ropes, light. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, beams, strong ropes, light), 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:pg5615:2:75 # text = No, as soon as the light shone in the evening from the attic it seemed to him as though its beams were strong ropes dragging him up, and he had to go and peep through the key-hole. 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 as as ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 attic attic NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 20 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ropes rope NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 xcomp _ _ 26 dragging drag VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 peep peep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 through through ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | participle | | the light *not said here* | | the attic | evening | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seem** | past | it | the attic *not said here* | light | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme attic=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | past | attic's beams | strong ropes | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **drag up** | gerund | strong ropes *not said here* | light | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | light | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | light *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **peep** | infinitive | light *not said here* | | | | | through the key hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=Theme | | 8 | **beam** | | attic | | | | | | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/76/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/2/)