--- title: About an hour before midnight, Hans entered the church and locked th… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: About an hour before midnight, Hans entered the church and locked the door behind him, but what was his surprise when, in place of the darkness and silence he expected, he found the church brilliantly lighted, and a crowd of people sitting round a table playing cards. Who acts: Hans, people. 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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 (Hans, people), 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:pg641:33:15 # text = About an hour before midnight, Hans entered the church and locked the door behind him, but what was his surprise when, in place of the darkness and silence he expected, he found the church brilliantly lighted, and a crowd of people sitting round a table playing cards. 1 About about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 midnight midnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 locked lock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 behind behind ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 appos _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 expected expect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 lighted light VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 47 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 acl _ _ 48 round round ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 51 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 advcl _ _ 52 cards card NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | Hans | the church | | | hour | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination | | 2 | **lock** | past | Hans *not said here* | the door | | | | behind Hans | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | | 3 | **is a** | past | | Hans's surprise | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **expect** | past | Hans | silence *not said here* | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | Hans | the church | | | | a crowd of people *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Topic | | 6 | **light** | participle | | the church *not said here* | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sit** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | | | round a table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **play** | gerund | people *not said here* | cards | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/16/) - ↑ back to [The Headless Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/33/)