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title: True, he worked hard enough by day, but at night, when all respectab… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: True, he worked hard enough by day, but at night, when all respectable folk were fast asleep, he used to steal out and join a dangerous band of robbers, who broke into rich people’s houses and carried off all they could lay hands on. Who acts: person, respectable folk, robbers, neighbours. A sentenc
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 5

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True, he worked hard enough by day, but at night, when all respectable folk were fast asleep, he used to steal out and join a dangerous band of robbers, who broke into rich people’s houses and carried off all they could lay hands on.

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**Who acts:** person, respectable folk, robbers, neighbours · **What happens:** work, be, use, steal out, join, break · **To what, where:** dangerous band, houses, all, hands

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, respectable folk, robbers, neighbours), 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:pg7277:31:5
# text = True, he worked hard enough by day, but at night, when all respectable folk were fast asleep, he used to steal out and join a dangerous band of robbers, who broke into rich people’s houses and carried off all they could lay hands on.
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	20	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
16	respectable	respectable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	join	join	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	off	off	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	obj	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	advcl	_	_
49	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	_
50	on	on	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | person |  |  |  | day | enough, hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | all respectable folk |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | past | person |  |  |  | night |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **steal out** | to-infinitive | person *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **join** | infinitive | person *not said here* | a dangerous band of robbers |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient |
| 6 | **break** | past | robbers |  |  |  |  | into rich people's houses *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into house=Result |
| 7 | **carry off** | past | person *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 8 | **lay** | could | neighbours *= neighbour* | hands |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result |

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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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