--- title: In summer the boy always lay out in the sun, while the girl hid hers… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In summer the boy always lay out in the sun, while the girl hid herself in the cellar: so it happened that the brother and sister came very little into contact with each other--in fact, they carefully avoided it. Who acts: boy, girl, it, brother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, girl, it, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:36:23 # text = In summer the boy always lay out in the sun, while the girl hid herself in the cellar: so it happened that the brother and sister came very little into contact with each other--in fact, they carefully avoided it. 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 16 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 obl:unmarked _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 33 nmod _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 42 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 avoided avoid VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie out** | past | the boy | | | the sun | summer | always *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | | 2 | **hide** | past | the girl | girl | | the cellar | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in cellar=Location | | 3 | **happen** | past | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | the brother and sister | little | | contact with each | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into contact=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **avoid** | past | flames *= flame* | fact | | fact | | carefully *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/24/) - ↑ back to [The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/36/)