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title: There were neither windows nor candles, and he could not make out wh… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There were neither windows nor candles, and he could not make out where the twilight came from, if not through the walls and roof. Who acts: windows, Childe, twilight. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 44

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There were neither windows nor candles, and he could not make out where the twilight came from, if not through the walls and roof.

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**Who acts:** windows, Childe, twilight · **What happens:** be, not make out, come · **To what, where:** walls

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, Childe, twilight), 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:pg7439:24:44
# text = There were neither windows nor candles, and he could not make out where the twilight came from, if not through the walls and roof.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc:preconj	_	_
4	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | windows nor candles |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **make out** | could | Childe |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | the twilight |  |  | the walls and roof |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through wall=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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