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title: These two lived happy and contentedly for a long while, when one eve… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: These two lived happy and contentedly for a long while, when one evening, as the young man was looking from the window, he saw on a mountain that lay out beyond the town a great bright light. Who acts: two, young man, man, that. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 41

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These two lived happy and contentedly for a long while, when one evening, as the young man was looking from the window, he saw on a mountain that lay out beyond the town a great bright light.

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**Who acts:** two, young man, man, that · **What happens:** live, look, see, lie out · **To what, where:** great bright light, mountain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, young man, man, that), 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:pg5615:23:41
# text = These two lived happy and contentedly for a long while, when one evening, as the young man was looking from the window, he saw on a mountain that lay out beyond the town a great bright light.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
33	out	out	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | this two |  |  |  | while | happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past · progressive | the young man |  |  |  |  | from the window | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from window=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **lie out** | past | that | a great bright light |  | a mountain |  | beyond the town | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=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 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.

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