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title: But by this time night had come, and there was no light in the house… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But by this time night had come, and there was no light in the house, and the woman was in too much hurry to get to her treasures, to go and look for one. Who acts: light, woman. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 99

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But by this time night had come, and there was no light in the house, and the woman was in too much hurry to get to her treasures, to go and look for one.

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**Who acts:** light, woman · **What happens:** come, be, get, go, look, treasure · **To what, where:** much hurry

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, woman), 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:pg5615:36:99
# text = But by this time night had come, and there was no light in the house, and the woman was in too much hurry to get to her treasures, to go and look for one.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | no light in the house |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the woman |  |  | much hurry |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to woman's treasures *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to treasure=Result |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for one | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme |
| 7 | **treasure** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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