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title: The day was done and the night came on and Earl Mar's daughter was t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The day was done and the night came on and Earl Mar's daughter was thinking of going to sleep when, turning round, she found at her side a handsome young man. Who acts: night, daughter. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 8

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The day was done and the night came on and Earl Mar's daughter was thinking of going to sleep when, turning round, she found at her side a handsome young man.

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**Who acts:** night, daughter · **What happens:** do, come on, think, go, sleep, turn round · **To what, where:** day, handsome young man, side

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, daughter), 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:pg7439:35:8
# text = The day was done and the night came on and Earl Mar's daughter was thinking of going to sleep when, turning round, she found at her side a handsome young man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Mar	March	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
17	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	round	round	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **do** | past · passive |  | the day |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come on** | past | the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Earl's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | Earl's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Earl's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn round** | gerund | Earl's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | past | daughter | a handsome young man |  | daughter's side |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Theme at side=Asset |

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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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