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title: Now they were on the stairs; a little lamp was burning, and on the l… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now they were on the stairs; a little lamp was burning, and on the landing stood the tame crow. Who acts: eyes, little lamp. 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 132

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Now they were on the stairs; a little lamp was burning, and on the landing stood the tame crow.

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**Who acts:** eyes, little lamp · **What happens:** be, burn, stand · **To what, where:** stairs, tame crow, landing

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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 (eyes, little lamp), 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:pg5615:9:132
# text = Now they were on the stairs; a little lamp was burning, and on the landing stood the tame crow.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  | the stairs |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | past · progressive | a little lamp |  |  |  | now |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | the tame crow |  | the landing |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crow=Theme on landing=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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