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title: During the night he could not sleep, until towards morning he fell i… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: During the night he could not sleep, until towards morning he fell into a slumber, and all at once it flashed upon him what the troll used to say. Who acts: troll, slumber. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 50

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During the night he could not sleep, until towards morning he fell into a slumber, and all at once it flashed upon him what the troll used to say.

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**Who acts:** troll, slumber · **What happens:** not sleep, fall, flash, use, say · **To what, where:** all, slumber · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (troll, slumber), 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:pg5615:27:50
# text = During the night he could not sleep, until towards morning he fell into a slumber, and all at once it flashed upon him what the troll used to say.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obl	_	_
20	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | could | troll |  |  |  | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | past | troll | all |  |  | morning | into a slumber *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into slumber=Result |
| 3 | **flash** | past | slumber |  |  |  |  | upon troll | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | past | the troll |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the troll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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