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description: The moon was already risen, and it was as light as day, when suddenly he heard a fearful noise, and at the same time a terrible desire to sleep overpowered him. Who acts: moon, sleep. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 48

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The moon was already risen, and it was as light as day, when suddenly he heard a fearful noise, and at the same time a terrible desire to sleep overpowered him.

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**Who acts:** moon, sleep · **What happens:** rise, be, hear, sleep, overpower · **To what, where:** moon, fearful noise, terrible desire

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, sleep), 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:pg640:24:48
# text = The moon was already risen, and it was as light as day, when suddenly he heard a fearful noise, and at the same time a terrible desire to sleep overpowered him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	acl	_	_
33	overpowered	overpower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · passive |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | moon |  |  |  | day | light *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | past | sleep | a fearful noise |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  | a terrible desire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **overpower** | participle · passive |  | a terrible desire |  |  | time |  | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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