--- title: One night, however, when the servants had stopped up late, they hear… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One night, however, when the servants had stopped up late, they heard a noise in the kitchen, and, peeping in, saw the Brownie swinging to and fro on the Jack chain, and saying: Who acts: servants, Brownie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Brownie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:44:12 # text = One night, however, when the servants had stopped up late, they heard a noise in the kitchen, and, peeping in, saw the Brownie swinging to and fro on the Jack chain, and saying: 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 stopped stop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 25 in in ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Brownie Brownie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 swinging swing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 xcomp _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop up** | past · perfect · passive | | the servants | | | night | however, late *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | | 2 | **hear** | past | servants *= servant* | a noise | | the kitchen | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 3 | **peep** | gerund | servants *= servant* *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | past | servants *= servant* *not said here* | the Brownie | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **swing** | gerund | the Brownie *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **fro** | infinitive | the Brownie *not said here* | | | the Jack chain | | | tree rules | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | servants *= servant* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/13/) - ↑ back to [The Cauld Lad of Hilton](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/44/)