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title: After the fatigues and terrors of the night, he lay still till mid-d… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After the fatigues and terrors of the night, he lay still till mid-day, but he made up his mind he would go that very evening into the forest to try what the goats’ milk could really do for him, and if he would now be able to understand all that had been a mystery to him. Who acts: noise, goats, tha
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 36

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After the fatigues and terrors of the night, he lay still till mid-day, but he made up his mind he would go that very evening into the forest to try what the goats’ milk could really do for him, and if he would now be able to understand all that had been a mystery to him.

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**Who acts:** noise, goats, that · **What happens:** lie, make up, go, try, do, be · **To what, where:** mind, forest, noise, mystery

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, goats, that), 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:pg641:34:36
# text = After the fatigues and terrors of the night, he lay still till mid-day, but he made up his mind he would go that very evening into the forest to try what the goats’ milk could really do for him, and if he would now be able to understand all that had been a mystery to him.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fatigues	fatigue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	terrors	terror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mid-day	mid-day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	obj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	really	really	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	ccomp	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
45	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
47	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	advmod	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
50	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
56	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	58	cop	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
59	to	to	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | noise |  |  |  | after the fatigues and terrors of the night; till mid-day; still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make up** | past | noise | noise's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **go** | would | noise |  |  | the forest | evening | that *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **try** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** | could | the goats and milk |  |  |  |  | for noise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | noise |  |  |  | now | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **understand** | to-infinitive | noise *not said here* |  | noise |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is a** | past · perfect | that | all mystery |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **mind** |  | noise |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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