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title: Every morning when the sun was rising, and every evening when it was… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning when the sun was rising, and every evening when it was setting, she would steal out of the house-door, and when the breeze parted the ears of corn so that she could see the blue sky through them, she thought how bright and beautiful it must be outside, and longed to see her dear swallo
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 202

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Every morning when the sun was rising, and every evening when it was setting, she would steal out of the house-door, and when the breeze parted the ears of corn so that she could see the blue sky through them, she thought how bright and beautiful it must be outside, and longed to see her dear swallow again.

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**Who acts:** sun, dowry, breeze · **What happens:** rise, set, steal, part, see, think · **To what, where:** house door, ears, blue sky, dear swallow

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, dowry, breeze), 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:pg640:47:202
# text = Every morning when the sun was rising, and every evening when it was setting, she would steal out of the house-door, and when the breeze parted the ears of corn so that she could see the blue sky through them, she thought how bright and beautiful it must be outside, and longed to see her dear swallow again.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	obj	_	_
20	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	40	mark	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
49	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
50	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
54	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	cop	_	_
56	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
60	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
61	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
63	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
65	again	again	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  | evening; morning |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **set** | past · progressive | dowry |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **steal** | would | sun |  |  | the house door |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out door=Location |
| 4 | **part** | past | the breeze | the ears of corn |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |
| 5 | **see** | could | sun | the blue sky |  |  |  | through ears *= ear* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sun |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | must | dowry |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **long** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | sun's dear swallow |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swallow=Stimulus |

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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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