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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 165

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Directly he had closed the door, Stan lifted out the pigs’ trough, and lay down himself, after making everything clean and tidy, but he was wise enough not to shut his eyes that night.

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**Who acts:** Stan · **What happens:** close, lift out, lay down, make, be, not shut · **To what, where:** door, trough, Stan, everything, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan), 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:pg641:13:165
# text = Directly he had closed the door, Stan lifted out the pigs’ trough, and lay down himself, after making everything clean and tidy, but he was wise enough not to shut his eyes that night.
1	Directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	obj	_	_
24	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tidy	tidy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
32	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	shut	shut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	csubj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	det	_	_
39	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past · perfect | Stan | the door |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 2 | **lift out** | past | Stan | the pigs's trough |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trough=Theme |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | Stan *not said here* | Stan |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Result |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | Stan *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everything=Product |
| 5 | **is** | past | Stan |  |  |  |  | enough, wise *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **shut** | to-infinitive |  | Stan's eyes |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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