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title: The following night, when everyone was fast asleep, he crept in and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The following night, when everyone was fast asleep, he crept in and took the snuff-box. Who acts: everyone, man. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 78

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The following night, when everyone was fast asleep, he crept in and took the snuff-box.

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**Who acts:** everyone, man · **What happens:** follow, be, creep in, take · **To what, where:** snuff box

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone, man), 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:pg7277:20:78
# text = The following night, when everyone was fast asleep, he crept in and took the snuff-box.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **creep in** | past | man |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | man *not said here* | the snuff box |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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