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title: They went into the garden, and when the lights in the palace were pu… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They went into the garden, and when the lights in the palace were put out one after the other, the crow led Gerda to a back-door. Who acts: stairs, crow. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 125

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They went into the garden, and when the lights in the palace were put out one after the other, the crow led Gerda to a back-door.

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**Who acts:** stairs, crow · **What happens:** go, put out, lead · **To what, where:** garden, lights, Gerda, back door

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stairs, crow), 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:pg5615:9:125
# text = They went into the garden, and when the lights in the palace were put out one after the other, the crow led Gerda to a back-door.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	obj	_	_
18	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | stairs *= stair* |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **put out** | past · passive |  | the lights in the palace |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset one=Goal |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the crow | Gerda |  | a back door |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme to door=Destination |

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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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